An Analysis of the Relation between Personality and the Attractiveness of Total Rewards Components
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This study examines the links between personality and the relative attraction of various total rewards components. A survey approach is adopted, with 967 individuals completing a questionnaire. These individuals are currently employed. Results show that, after controlling for the effects of several demographic variables, “Big-Five” personality traits do affect individuals’ attraction to the following total rewards components: quality of work and of social relationships, development and career opportunities, variable pay, indirect pay, flexibility of working conditions, and prestige. Among Big-Five personality traits, openness to experience best predicts the relative importance employees give to the various total rewards components.
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Job rewards are not equally attractive for all employees and do not affect all employees in the same way.
“In a broader sense, this finding is also in line with prior studies offering initial evidence for the idea that job rewards are not equally attractive for all employees and thus do not affect all employees in the same way (e.g., De Gieter & Hofmans, 2015;Hofmans, De Gieter, & Pepermans, 2013;Vandenberghe, St-Onge, & Robineau, 2008).”
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- Authors
- Vandenberghe, C., St-Onge, S., & Robineau, É.
- Affiliations
- HEC Montréal (CA)
- professor,HEC Montréal,Montréal,
- Venue
- Relations industrielles
- Publisher
- Consortium Erudit
- Published
- 2008-10-14
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 425-453
- ISSN
- 0034-379X (ISSN-L)
- 1703-8138
- OpenAlex
- W2162662210
- Cited by
- 28
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- 72
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- 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- papers.ssrn.com
- Locations
- Relations industrielles (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Érudit (Université de Montréal) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Employee Performance and Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Human Resource and Talent Management
- Keywords
- personality, total rewards, Big Five personality traits, openness to experience, employee preferences, variable pay, career development, work flexibility, occupational prestige, work quality, workplace relationships
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