dc.description.abstract | Pay for performance is a compensation policy that companies usually implement. Those companies believe that pay for performance can not only increase employees’ extrinsic motivation but also their job performance, meantime it might also increase employees’ risk-taking intention. The effects between risk-taking intention and job performance has been argued by different scholars. Therefore, this study will discuss the relationships between pay for performance and job performance, risk-taking intention, and extrinsic motivation. Meanwhile the study will discuss the relationships about risk-taking intention and extrinsic motivation to job performance, and also discuss whether the relationship between pay for performance is affected by mediating effects of risk-taking intention and extrinsic motivation.
The study conduct a survey of the full-time employee in Taiwan. We collect data by paper-and-pencil questionnaire and internet questionnaire, and totally there are 523 questionnaire returned effectively.
Through consistency analysis, Pearson’s analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis, the result indicated:
1. The relationships between pay for performance and job performance, risk-taking intention, and extrinsic motivation are all positive.
2. The relationship between risk-taking intention and job performance is positive. | en_US |