Research directions
By: LAWLER, Edward E
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ArticlePublisher: 2000Human Resource Management Review 10, 3, p. 307-311Abstract: The research that can be done on compensation clearly exceeds the amount that has been and is likely to be done. Dramatic changes in the nature of work organizatios and the business environment have created numerous important new reward system research topics that warrant attention. For example, the increased globalization of corporations, the increased use of information technology, an the increased use of contingent workers all raise literally hundreds of interesting researcharble questions about both the determinants of pay practices and the consequences of pay practices. Interestingly, in the articles, there is a greater focus on the determinants of pay practics than on their consequences. This is an orientation that is not present in much of the research on compensation. It tends to be more concerned with the consequences of differenct pay practices rather than on their determinants. Given the enourmous number of researchable questions concerning pay in organizations, it is important to ask what issues should be front and center in a research agenda on pay. In short, what do we really need to know about pay systems? Before I answer this question, I nee to identify one of my major biases. I believe research should focus on topics where the results are likely to be both theoretically and practically important. Given this bias, I am inclined to identify five areas where research on pay in organizations in particularly likely to yield useful results
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The research that can be done on compensation clearly exceeds the amount that has been and is likely to be done. Dramatic changes in the nature of work organizatios and the business environment have created numerous important new reward system research topics that warrant attention. For example, the increased globalization of corporations, the increased use of information technology, an the increased use of contingent workers all raise literally hundreds of interesting researcharble questions about both the determinants of pay practices and the consequences of pay practices. Interestingly, in the articles, there is a greater focus on the determinants of pay practics than on their consequences. This is an orientation that is not present in much of the research on compensation. It tends to be more concerned with the consequences of differenct pay practices rather than on their determinants. Given the enourmous number of researchable questions concerning pay in organizations, it is important to ask what issues should be front and center in a research agenda on pay. In short, what do we really need to know about pay systems? Before I answer this question, I nee to identify one of my major biases. I believe research should focus on topics where the results are likely to be both theoretically and practically important. Given this bias, I am inclined to identify five areas where research on pay in organizations in particularly likely to yield useful results
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