The Effects of Pay Systems on Blue-Collar Employees' Emotional Distress: The Mediating Effects of Objective and Subjective Work Monotony

We hypothesized that employees' emotionaldistress would be affected by the degree to which theirpayment was contingent upon individual performance.Respondents were 2747 blue-collar employees in 21factories in Israel. They completed questionnaires oncompany time. We found that, in comparison with thosewho were paid only according to time worked, being on aperformance-contingent pay system was associated with higher levels of depression and somaticcomplaints, but not of anxiety. As expected, theseeffects were partially mediated by the extent to whichthe respondents' work was monotonous.

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