Author : Ji Hyun Kim (Ph.D.)
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Book Synopsis An Experimental Examination of Incentive and Sorting Effects of Pay-for-performance on Creative Performance by : Ji Hyun Kim (Ph.D.)
Download or read book An Experimental Examination of Incentive and Sorting Effects of Pay-for-performance on Creative Performance written by Ji Hyun Kim (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a longstanding debate about whether pay-for-performance (PFP) enhances or undermines creative performance. Traditional motivation and revised creativity theories suggest that PFP and intrinsic task interest combine additively to enhance creative performance, whereas cognitive evaluation theory (CET) and self-determination theory (SDT) posit an undermining effect of PFP on task interest and thus on intrinsic motivation and creative performance. To help resolve these conflicting predictions and provide a more comprehensive understanding of how and when PFP influences creative performance, the current study incorporated both incentive and sorting mechanisms of PFP, varying strengths of PFP, and task autonomy as a key moderator. A novel laboratory experiment was designed to capture key elements of workplace contexts, including in the design of the creative tasks, the choice of PFP strength based on benchmarking of U.S. companies' practices, and allowing participants to sort into different pay conditions, consistent with the opportunity for mobility in the labor market. Results showed that, through both incentive and sorting mechanisms, high PFP intensity more strongly enhanced creative performance than did low PFP intensity and both were superior to fixed pay. Importantly, task autonomy positively moderated the PFP-creative performance relationship such that creative performance under PFP increased much more under higher task autonomy. Finally, the difference in creative performance under PFP versus fixed pay was greater when participants were allowed to sort into their preferred pay conditions than when they worked only under randomly assigned pay conditions (typical in past research on PFP and creativity). Several theoretical and practical implications and future directions are discussed.