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Incentive compensation as an injurious condition of work: A study of labelling
Author(s) -
George Jennifer M.,
Brief Arthur P.,
Webster Jane,
Burke Michael J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030100206
Subject(s) - incentive , compensation (psychology) , negative affectivity , labelling , psychology , disposition , control (management) , work (physics) , social psychology , positive affectivity , prosocial behavior , personality , microeconomics , economics , mechanical engineering , criminology , management , engineering
A recursive causal model is presented in which individual and work factors are hypothesized to be predictive of workers' labelling an incentive compensation program as potentially injurious to their well‐being. The individual factors include the dispositional variable, negative affectivity, and financial needs and resources. The work factors consist of prior incentive compensation, experienced job insecurity, and experienced control. The model was tested using questionnaire responses of 165 managers and professionals. While it was found that the overall model did not fit the data that well, negative affectivity was found to be positively associated and experienced control negatively associated with the incentive compensation program being labelled negatively. The somewhat surprising finding that financial needs and resources were not found to be significantly associated with labelling is discussed. The importance of disposition and experienced control for the labelling of potentially threatening or harmful job conditions as well as some hypothesized antecedents of control also are discussed.