PERRY, James L. <br/><br/>
Back to the future? :  performance-related pay, empirical research, and the perils of persistence 

 - Malden, MA :  Blackwell Publishers,  January / February 2009 
<br/><br/> Have pay-for-performance systems lived up to promise that proponents held out for them? Do the basic theories underlying them prove valid? What lessons can be drawn from prior experiences with a pay-for-performance systems? In this installment of theory to practice, James L. Perry, Trent A. Engbers, and So Yun Jun of Indiana University draw important lessons from their meta-analysis of research assessing pay-for-performance systems in the United States from 1977 to 2008