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Are financial incentives related to performance? A meta-analytic review of empirical research.
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The relationship of financial incentives to performance quality and quantity is cumulated over 39 studies containing 47 relationships. Financial incentives were not related to performance quality but had a corrected correlation of .34 with performance quantity. Setting (laboratory, field, experimental simulation) and theoretical framework moderated the relationship, but task type did not.
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- Jenkins, G. D., Mitra, A., Gupta, N., & Shaw, J. D.
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- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 1998-10
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 777-787
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- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
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- W2049297495
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- 20.27
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