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The Effects of United Way Membership on Employee Pay in Nonprofit Organizations
Author(s) -
Werner Steve,
Konopaske Robert,
Gemeinhardt Gretchen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.11104
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , agency (philosophy) , corporate governance , business , compensation (psychology) , public relations , executive compensation , quality (philosophy) , principal–agent problem , accounting , public administration , marketing , finance , political science , sociology , psychology , medicine , social science , pathology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , philosophy
This research investigates the relationship between United Way membership and the compensation level of employees in nonprofit organizations. This study is based on questionnaires completed by 1,811 employees from sixty‐nine nonprofit agencies in a large metropolitan area. Managerial capitalism, agency theory, and United Way funding and governance roles were used to develop the hypotheses. We found that employees of organizations belonging to the United Way receive pay premiums, suggesting that the United Way member agencies are higher‐quality agencies that pay their employees higher wages.