Performance Pay and Job Satisfaction

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 523-540

  Heywood, John S ^a   Wei, Xiangdong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

job satisfation; ordered probit; performance pay; piece rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992904597     PISSN: 00198692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022185606066143     Document Type: Article

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