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Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak

Compensation management literature highlights that properly administering performance-based pay may directly affect employee attitudes and behaviours (i.e. job performance and job turnover). Furthermore, a thorough review of such relationships revealed that the effect of performance-based pay on suc...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Azman, Abang Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna, Amat Aswadi, Amat Khairulizan, Mohd Shariff, Mohd Noor
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Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2008
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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spelling my.uum.repo.29122016-04-26T03:12:12Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/2912/ Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak Ismail, Azman Abang Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna Amat Aswadi, Amat Khairulizan Mohd Shariff, Mohd Noor HD28 Management. Industrial Management Compensation management literature highlights that properly administering performance-based pay may directly affect employee attitudes and behaviours (i.e. job performance and job turnover). Furthermore, a thorough review of such relationships revealed that the effect of performance-based pay on such employee attitudes and behaviours is indirectly affected by perceptions of procedural justice. The nature of this relationship is less emphasised in past research studies. Therefore, a survey method was used to gather 124 usable questionnaires from employees who have worked in the Malaysian Federal Government linked companies in Kuching, Sarawak (GLCKUCHING). A stepwise regression analysis was performed to determine the mediating effect of procedural justice and the findings obtained indicated that procedural justice and performance-based pay were significantly correlated with job performance. However, no significant correlation was found between procedural justice and performance-based pay with job turnover. Results of this study serve as evidence confirming the assertion that procedural justice does act as a partial mediating variable in the performance-based pay models of the organisational sector investigated. This paper also addresses the implications of such findings on compensation theory and practice. In addition, conceptual and methodological limitations, and directions for future research are also discussed. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/2912/1/mmj12125%5B1%5Dmohd_noor.pdf Ismail, Azman and Abang Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna and Amat Aswadi, Amat Khairulizan and Mohd Shariff, Mohd Noor (2008) Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak. Malaysian Management Journal, 12 (1&2). pp. 89-101. ISSN 0128-6226 http://mmj.uum.edu.my/
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Ismail, Azman
Abang Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna
Amat Aswadi, Amat Khairulizan
Mohd Shariff, Mohd Noor
Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak
description Compensation management literature highlights that properly administering performance-based pay may directly affect employee attitudes and behaviours (i.e. job performance and job turnover). Furthermore, a thorough review of such relationships revealed that the effect of performance-based pay on such employee attitudes and behaviours is indirectly affected by perceptions of procedural justice. The nature of this relationship is less emphasised in past research studies. Therefore, a survey method was used to gather 124 usable questionnaires from employees who have worked in the Malaysian Federal Government linked companies in Kuching, Sarawak (GLCKUCHING). A stepwise regression analysis was performed to determine the mediating effect of procedural justice and the findings obtained indicated that procedural justice and performance-based pay were significantly correlated with job performance. However, no significant correlation was found between procedural justice and performance-based pay with job turnover. Results of this study serve as evidence confirming the assertion that procedural justice does act as a partial mediating variable in the performance-based pay models of the organisational sector investigated. This paper also addresses the implications of such findings on compensation theory and practice. In addition, conceptual and methodological limitations, and directions for future research are also discussed.
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author Ismail, Azman
Abang Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna
Amat Aswadi, Amat Khairulizan
Mohd Shariff, Mohd Noor
author_facet Ismail, Azman
Abang Abdullah, Dayang Nailul Munna
Amat Aswadi, Amat Khairulizan
Mohd Shariff, Mohd Noor
author_sort Ismail, Azman
title Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak
title_short Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak
title_full Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak
title_fullStr Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak
title_full_unstemmed Performance-based pay: An empirical study in Malaysian Federal Government linked companies, Kuching, Sarawak
title_sort performance-based pay: an empirical study in malaysian federal government linked companies, kuching, sarawak
publisher Universiti Utara Malaysia
publishDate 2008
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