Conny Herbert ANTONI Xavier BAETEN Stephen PERKINS Matti VARTIAINEN
Prof. Dr. Koshi ENDO
The motivation for change and growth has become a central topic in Europe and elsewhere. Times of stability are short and a lot of efforts have been invested to look for seeds of growth and stable development. Governments expect ‘creative destruction’ to solve the economic crises, create growth and provide jobs to those without them. The question of the role of reward management systems in enhancing change and development remains largely unanswered. The question of rewarding elements and practices in support of the emergence of new and renewed structures needs answers. Much emphasis has been put on technological developments during 2000’s for the increase of productivity. In many countries, in spite of high unemployment rates, those having work seem to experience more intensification than ever. The ageing population has forced politicians across Europe to activate longer work hours in order to ensure the survival of pensions and social security systems. Simultaneously, the world of work is changing swiftly because of millennials, generation z and immigrants are now replacing an ageing workforce. A question to management is: are the values and beliefs of these large groups very different from older generations’ values and beliefs? What do they consider as rewarding and motivating in their work? New types of jobs and work relations are also emerging because of globalisation and increasing digital labor. The challenges of managing reward in an international context are considerable given both the rapid global expansion of organizations and the emergence of new global players in developing countries. Such developments have thrown up many challenges simultaneously that might impact upon organizations’ reward strategies and systems. Key issues include governance, stakeholders’ variable power and influence, leadership, cultural norms and values, legal systems, political and economic vagaries, competitive pressures, pay setting methods, and the use of expatriate versus home country labor and global career management. Development of information and communication technologies has increasingly transferred jobs to the net creating a digital workforce. It is possible to find skilled employees in any corner of the world and hire them usually to rather short or even micro-tasks. Finding work remotely has led to a significant increase in freelance workers. For these freelancers, the employer can come from anywhere and the trust in work relations is the main intangible asset to keep the work processes flowing. Cultural differences will also have a significant impact on the flow of work. More and more employees work in distributed teams having much more flexibility to shape their working lives than their co-located work mates. They are often led remotely and control their own schedules and work environments. Their performance is measured and evaluated based on their outcomes instead of keen observations of their ongoing work processes. Reward structures are also shifting from being primarily based on direct monetary compensation towards a “total rewards” paradigm, where both intrinsic and extrinsic rewards are balanced. Likewise, there is a change in thinking work/life balance with “work” seen as a secondary activity in one’s total life. In their well-known Self-Determination Theory (SDT), Deci and Ryan point out that motivation can be promoted through contexts that satisfy the psychological needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness. The quality of motivation can be predicted from both the aspects of the social environment including job characteristics and the work climate and individual differences. Leaders and managers can hardly influence individual characteristics but very much on the events in work by influencing job environment and characteristics and organizational climate by leadership practices. The question from the reward management point of view then arises how motivation can be fostered without decaying it? We cannot overstate that, more than ever, there is a strong need for practice-relevant, evidence-based academic research in the field of reward management in order to help firms face global challenges in their economic, social, environmental and regulatory business contexts. This conference focuses on recent relevant academic research in the field of reward management in advanced and developing economies. It also seeks to function as a bridge between academics and practitioners. In this respect, a number of reward professionals will also be invited to exchange ideas in order to stimulate the dialogue between research and practice.
The conference brings together both researchers and practitioners in the field of reward systems: researchers from universities, business schools and other research institutions, human resources professionals from companies, consulting firms, and general managers responsible for developing reward strategies, systems and their implementation in companies, and reward system experts from employers’ and employees’ associations.
The papers presented in this conference are expected to fit broadly – but not exclusively – into one of the following themes: 1. Reward in its context.
2. Motivation and engagement in organizations
3. Reward systems
Reward management: linking employee motivation and organizational performance Guest Editors: The Journal of Personnel Psychology (JPP) announces a special issue focusing on psychological processes linking organizational reward systems and practices to employee motivation and organizational performance. Companies invest substantial financial resources in reward management systems and practices (encompassing fixed and variable pay, benefits and non-financial rewards) to attract, retain and motivate employees and thereby to ensure and improve organizational competitiveness and performance. In the face of the financial crisis and of serious cases of employee and company unethical behavior financial incentives and more specifically bonus and pay for performance (pfp) systems have been widely criticized for their detrimental effects for individuals, companies and society. On the other hand, both qualitative reviews (Gerhart & Fang, 2015; Shaw & Gupta, 2015) and meta-analytic studies (Jenkins, Mitra, Gupta & Shaw, 1998) have shown that financial incentives can improve employee motivation and performance. These examples of the dark and bright side of financial incentives highlight the importance of reward management for employees, companies and society. They also illustrate the need to understand the underlying mediating and moderating mechanisms linking reward systems and practices to individual, team and organizational outcomes. However, reward management, particularly compensation and incentive systems remain one of the most under-researched areas in human resource management and personnel psychology research (Gupta & Shaw 2015). This special issue calls for papers that help to fill this gap. The proposed special issue intends to present studies that analyze for example
While we welcome both empirical and purely conceptual manuscripts, we particularly encourage the submission of empirical papers. Method of submission: Manuscripts, which should be clearly labelled as submissions intended for this special issue, must be submitted through JPP's online review system, Editorial Manager, in accordance with regular JPP guidelines (see http://www.editorialmanager.com/jppsy/ and http://www.hogrefe.com/periodicals/journal-of-personnel-psychology/advice-for-authors/). All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, using the normal JPP review criteria while also taking into account the contribution of the paper to the topic of this special issue. Formal requirements: Original articles present novel empirical results to make theoretical advances (with a maximum length of 6,000 words, including references but excluding tables and figures), research notes are similar to original articles but shorter (with a maximum length of 2,500 words, including references but excluding tables and figures), and review articles summarize (preferably quantitatively via meta- analysis) and integrate a clearly defined literature and make theoretical advances in this area (with a maximum length of 8,000 words, including references but excluding tables and figures). Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2016 (new deadline) Feedback of the review process will be given within 3 months; revisions should be submitted within three months, final acceptance after a potential further revision is scheduled until November 2016 Informal enquiries on the Special Issue can be made to Conny Antoni (antoni@uni-trier.de ) References Gerhart, B., & Fang, M. (2014). Pay for (individual) performance: Issues, claims, evidence and the role of sorting effects. Human Resource Management Review, 24(1), 41-52. Gupta, N., & Shaw, J. D. (2014). Employee compensation: The neglected area of HRM research. Human Resource Management Review, 24(1), 1-4. Jenkins Jr, G. D., Mitra, A., Gupta, N., & Shaw, J. D. (1998). Are financial incentives related to performance? A meta-analytic review of empirical research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(5), 777. Shaw, J. D., & Gupta, N. (2015). Let the evidence speak again! Financial incentives are more effective than we thought. Human Resource Management Journal, 25(3), 281-293.
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ISSN number for the workshop papers is : 2295 - 1695
The conference will run over two full days. Day 1 will include one plenary speaker, presentation of conference papers and a discussion panel comprising academics and practitioners. Day 2 will include one plenary speaker and the presentation of conference papers.
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