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When a Gain Comes at a Price: Pay Attitudes after Changing Tier Status
Author(s) -
LEE RAYMOND T.,
MARTIN JAMES E.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1996.tb00403.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , tier 2 network , business , work (physics) , labour economics , demographic economics , marketing , economics , psychology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , computer science , engineering
This study compares attitudes toward pay and work of employees who changed from the high tier to the low tier after transferring jobs from low‐to high‐paying departments with those who similarly transferred but did not change tiers. The former had lower Pay Satisfaction than the latter, but they did not differ in Job Satisfaction and Union and Employer Commitment. The findings suggest that the change‐tier employees' loss of high‐tier status was a likely reason for their pay dissatisfaction.