The authors’ affiliation is Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Lönnrotinkatu 4 B 00120 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: antti.kauhanen@etla.fi, snapari1@gmail.com. Funding by TT-säätiö is gratefully acknowledged. The data are proprietary; the authors are thus unable to release the data. Comments by Petri Böckerman, Panu Kalmi, and Terhi Maczulskij are appreciated.
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Performance Measurement and Incentive Plans
Article first published online: 21 JUN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2012.00694.x
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Volume 51, Issue 3, pages 645–669, July 2012
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KAUHANEN, A. and NAPARI, S. (2012), Performance Measurement and Incentive Plans. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 51: 645–669. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2012.00694.x
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The authors’ affiliation is Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Lönnrotinkatu 4 B 00120 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: antti.kauhanen@etla.fi, snapari1@gmail.com. Funding by TT-säätiö is gratefully acknowledged. The data are proprietary; the authors are thus unable to release the data. Comments by Petri Böckerman, Panu Kalmi, and Terhi Maczulskij are appreciated.
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- Article first published online: 21 JUN 2012
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This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. On the basis of theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of the performance measures, the organizational level of performance measurement, and the time horizon. The intensity of incentives is also stronger for white-collar employees. All of these findings are consistent with theory.