The efficiency of wages, profit sharing, and stock

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine which forms of compensation are more efficient at affecting employee attitudes, thus extending efficiency wage theory from wage-based compensation to profit sharing and stock-based compensation.Design/methodology/approachThree models of efficiency wage...

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Published inJournal of participation and employee ownership (Online) Vol. 2; no. 3; pp. 222 - 235
Main Author Weltmann, Dan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited 22.11.2019
Subjects
Adverse selection
Attitudes
Cash flow
Compensation
Cost control
Datasets
Efficiency
Employee attitude
Employers
Productivity
Wages & salaries
Workers
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Summary:PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine which forms of compensation are more efficient at affecting employee attitudes, thus extending efficiency wage theory from wage-based compensation to profit sharing and stock-based compensation.Design/methodology/approachThree models of efficiency wage theory were tested: shirking, turnover and gift exchange. The effects of those three modes of compensation (wages, profit sharing and stock) were contrasted for the three models of efficiency wage theory.FindingsThe findings were that raising wages is the most efficient form of compensation in the turnover and shirking models, while in the gift exchange model profit sharing and stock-based compensation may function like efficiency wages.Originality/valueThis is the first study of this particular issue.
ISSN:2514-7641
2514-765X
DOI:10.1108/JPEO-09-2019-0021