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Effect of Unequal Pay and Promotion on Labor Performance

Khodadadi, Mostafa | 2019

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 52461 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Vesal, Mohamad; Fatemi Ardestani, Farshad
  7. Abstract:
  8. Inequality and the feeling of injustice governing in the work environment place is one of the important and influential factors on employees'affecting productivity. If Should the employees believe that they are getting lower wages despite having the same productivity as their colleagues, they receive less wage than those co-workers, they might find the firm's behavior unfair and thus, they would loweradjust their performance accordingly. This problem is of great importance, hence the numerous related studies in the literature. This study investigates the effect of inequal unequal payment and promotion on the productivity of the employees by designing and implementing a natural work environment in the lab. The subjects Subjects were randomly assigned to either of three groups: a control group, a treatmeant group for inequalityunequal wages, and a treatment group for with unequal wages but with promotion opportunities. We conclude that inequal unequal payment decreases the producivity and satisfaction of the individualwork-force. In addition, the results show that provided that promotions are a possibilitywith promotion, the work-force subject to inequal individuals payment ignore the wage inequality and improve their performance
  9. Keywords:
  10. Unequal Pay ; Worker Effort ; Promotion Strategies ; Job Satisfaction ; Human Performance

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