Organizational Reward Systems: Implications for Climate.

摘要

Reliance upon aggregated perceptual data to represent organizational influences on individual attitudes and behavior has led to an emphasis on task and role characteristics in current studies of psychological climate. The present study investigates the role of differences in organizational reward structures upon individual perceptions of the reward climate. Nurses in a Naval Hospital worked for the same supervisors but were subject to either tenure-contingent (N = 73) or behavior-contingent (N = 50) reward systems. No differences in perceived reward climate were found between the two groups. In the tenure-contingent group, job attitudes reflected individual characteristics rather than perceived climate whereas the opposite relationship was found for the behavior-contingent group. (Author)