47 managers completed the Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire and separate measures of job involvement, work satisfaction, and internal motivation. They also provided self-ratings of performance, absenteeism, and turnover. Only two of the 24 correlations between these outcomes and satisfaction with pay level, raises, benefits, and structure were significant, those between pay level and motivation and pay level and involvement. The fact that most pay satisfaction-outcome correlations were nonsignificant suggests that in this sample pay is unrelated to job attitudes that lead to high motivation and performance.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
HackmanJ. R.OldhamG. R.Development of Job Diagnostic Survey. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1975, 60, 159–170.
2.
HenemanH. G.SchwabD. P.Pay satisfaction: Its multidimensional nature and measurement. International Journal of Psychology, 1985, 20, 129–141.
3.
HerzbergF.Work and the nature of man. Cleveland, OH: World Publ., 1966.
4.
LodahlT. M.KejnerM.The definition and measurement of job involvement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1965, 49, 24–33.
5.
SmithP. C.KendallL. M.HulinC. L.The measurement of satisfaction in work and retirement. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1969.
