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Who's Contented Now? Gainsharing and the Paradoxical Female Worker

dc.contributor.authorWelbourne, Theresa M.
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Mary E.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-25T14:51:05Z
dc.date.available2020-11-25T14:51:05Z
dc.date.issued1996-11-01
dc.description.abstractThe "paradox of the contented female worker" describes the phenomenon of women reporting higher work and life satisfaction levels than men, despite being objectively worse off than their male counterparts. Using models of pay satisfaction and theories of equity, distributive justice, and relative deprivation, we examined the existence of this paradox in four companies with gainsharing plans. Results confirm that the paradox prevails for all under traditional pay systems, but under gainsharing, there is no paradox for lower-paid employees and a strong paradox among higher-paid employees.
dc.description.legacydownloadsWho_s_Content_NowWP96_15.pdf: 616 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020.
dc.identifier.other127988
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/77042
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjecthuman resource
dc.subjectHR
dc.subjectorganization
dc.subjectpay
dc.subjectperformance
dc.subjectindividual
dc.subjectgainsharing
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjectwork
dc.subjectparadox
dc.subjectemployee
dc.subjectmale
dc.subjectpaid
dc.titleWho's Contented Now? Gainsharing and the Paradoxical Female Worker
dc.typepreprint
local.authorAffiliationWelbourne, Theresa M.: Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationGraham, Mary E.: Georgia State University

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