...Daniel Johnson; Christopher J. Lake Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between pay satisfaction, global job satisfaction, loyalty and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) – as they all pertain to contingent workers. The proposed model suggests, due...

... factors for effective compensation programs, which may facilitate managers’ ability to influence pay satisfaction in ways that extend beyond the pay satisfaction received from the pay itself (Jawahar and Stone, 2011). Specifically, human resource managers might consider steering toward distributive...

... collected in a large public sector research organisation where the results of the appraisal were linked to pay increments. Further research is needed to determine the applicability of the results to private sector employees. Practical implications The quality of the PA experience varies and a low...

.... Numerical flexibility Flexible labour Pay Productivity rates Organizational performance Norway Research on flexible work organizations is relatively well established. At least since the work of Atkinson (1984) , much attention has been given to flexibility in work organizations. Flexibility...

... relations Company profit sharing schemes Pay Collective bargaining Germany Employee relations in Germany are often portrayed as being homogeneous and relatively static (see, for instance, Sinn, 2003 , cf., inter alios, Frege, 2003 ; Hassel, 2002 ; Jackson, 2005). This holds...

...Nancy E. Day Purpose The paper's purpose is to investigate the relationships between pay communication and referent choice, pay satisfaction and pay equity perceptions. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 149 employed graduate business students from a variety of organizations were surveyed...

.... It over‐simplifies the process of strategy formulation and content; it gives equal importance to values, structure and process although the data showed that the last was of the greatest significance; and it is represented as unitarist and deterministic. The new pay doesn’t necessarily mean implementing...

... of earnings orders will also prove to be invaluable as checklists of good practice. Readers who are contemplating entering the world of small business employee recruitment will find the sections dealing with gross pay, net pay, PAYE, statutory maternity pay and sick pay of particular interest...

...Peter Hamilton Examines the introduction of local pay bargaining in a National Health Service Trust. The focus of the article is the irritation experienced by a senior manager responsible for its implementation and operation. Rhetorically deconstructs the manager’s exasperation, highlighting...

...Edmund Heery Considers the ethics of the “new pay”, a prescriptive model of pay management which has exercised increasing influence over reward practice in recent years. Makes two primary criticisms of the new pay ‐ that it seeks to impose excessive risk on employees and that it affords little...

... be expected to exert a downward pressure on pay, the pay levels found were significantly higher than the junior wages council minima that could have been expected to be in force in 1993. An overwhelming majority of the students were satisfied with their pay. For employers,the young constitute a relatively...

...Brian G.M. Main Using a series of interviews with top executives conducted between October 1992 and April 1993 in 24 large British companies, discusses the way that top executive pay is determined. Finds that there are well ordered practices and procedures in place. These are analysed from...

...Janet Walsh Conventional wisdom is that decentralized bargaining, performance pay and individualized remuneration schemes enable managers to utilize human resources more effectively. Examines employers’ recent experiences of such arrangements by drawing on data on company pay policies. Argues...

...Ariane Hegewisch Decentralisation of pay bargaining in the UK is well known. Other countries in Europe have not gone so far but a clear trend towards decentralisation is perceptible, although national or industry‐wide bargaining is still widely used. There is an accompanying increase...

...Miriam Dornstein It is widely agreed that employees’ attitudes towards pay incentives are an important determinant of their effectiveness. The perceived fairness of pay incentives and their determinants are examined. Based on theories dealing with the fairness evaluation of rewards, a number...