Research on the Pay for Performance : Questionnaire Survey and Experimental Analysis

本研究的目的是定量地考察日本企业“绩效薪酬“管理的实际效果和功能。研究方法采用问卷调查法和实验法。前一项调查揭示了哪些指标被用来评估工人，这些指标如何被用来奖励他们，以及由此产生的薪酬差异有多大。关于后来的实验分析，我们证实，工人得到一个正确的激励，投资他们的努力，到公司的具体培训，如果他们被提供了一个机会，以获得更高的工资晋升到更有生产力的工作。此外，我们已经运行了一个初步的实验，工人之间的选择自己的努力和帮助努力的背景下，多任务的团队生产。

The purpose of this research is to quantitatively investigate the actual effect and function of"the pay for performance"management in Japanese firms. Our investigation methods are questionnaire survey and experiments. The former survey revealed what indexes is used to evaluate the workers, how those indexes are utilized to reward them, and how much the resulting differences in payments are. Regarding the later experimental analysis, we confirm that workers receive a right incentive to invest their efforts into the firm specific training if they are offered a chance of getting promoted to the more productive job with the higher wage. In addition, we have run a preliminary experiment on workers' choice between their own effort and help effort within the context of multi-task in a team production.