High status job title compensation for underpayment: A test of equity theory. |
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Authors: | Greenberg, Jerald Ornstein, Suzyn |
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Abstract: | In 2 experiments, 148 undergraduate student workers performed a proofreading task and were given extra job responsibilities in conjunction with a high-status job title that was either earned on the basis of their superior performance or unearned. It was found that the earned job title proved adequate compensation for the additional inputs to keep Ss feeling equitably paid and to maintain their pre-title level of performance. In contrast, bestowal of an unearned job title at first led to an improvement in performance accompanied by feelings of overpayment but subsequently led to a sharp performance decrement and feelings of underpayment. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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