Merit Pay: Elm Street or Hollywood Boulevard?

Academe ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Marth
Keyword(s):  
Merit Pay

Factors driving changes to remuneration policies in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bussin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Merit Pay ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Retention Strategies ◽  
Retention Strategy ◽  
Remuneration Policy ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Firm Data ◽  
E Mail

This study was conducted in 2012 and replicates Bussin and Huysamen’s (2004) work, conducted in 2003, on remuneration policies. It investigates the factors driving remuneration policy in South Africa and determines whether these factors have changed since 2003. Anonymous e-mail questionnaires were received from 131 senior company representatives. All participating companies were members of the South African Reward Association (SARA) or clients of a large remuneration consulting firm. Data were analysed using a chi-squared test and factor analysis. Results support Bussin and Huysamen’s study, which found that the two main drivers of change in policy were the retention of talented staff and the financial results of the organisation. However, three components of remuneration are receiving greater prominence than they did in 2003: governance in the organisation, merit pay and retention strategies. These findings suggest a greater shareholder expectation that pay should be linked to performance, and that pay acts as a retention strategy for critical staff.

The Paradox of Merit Pay in the Public Sector

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Edward Kellough ◽  
Haoran Lu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Merit Pay ◽  
The Public

Piecework versus merit pay: a mean field games approach to academic behavior

2012 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Besancenot ◽  
Jean-Michel Courtault ◽  
Khaled El Dika
Keyword(s):  
Merit Pay ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Mean Field Games ◽  
Academic Behavior

Merit Pay for Teachers: A Poor Prescription for Reform

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Moore Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teachers ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Merit Pay ◽  
Policy Analyst ◽  
Business World ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Reform School ◽  
Group Goals ◽  
Motivational Needs

Many educators as well as business and governmental leaders argue that the improvement of schools depends primarily upon improving the performance of teachers. Merit pay, a solution drawn from the business world, promises to reward effective teachers and encourage them to work harder. From her perspective as both historian and policy analyst, Susan Moore Johnson explains that merit pay is neither a new nor an untested remedy. The speeches and programs of educational reformers of the 1920s and 1950s echo the current hopes for and arguments against merit pay. An analysis of the reasons for the failure of past merit pay plans suggests that present proposals would face similar technical, organizational, and financial obstacles. Asserting that merit pay takes into account neither the motivational needs of teachers nor the interdependent nature of schools, Johnson concludes that when looking to the corporate world for models of reform, school leaders should consider the practices of highly successful corporations which emphasize group goals over individual incentives.

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