James Hesford, Nicolas Mangin and Mina Pizzini
Do Higher Wages Pay for Themselves?
An Intra-Firm Test of the Effect of Wages on Employee Performance
University of Bern, 2015
What's inside?
New evidence sheds light on the relationships among wages, productivity and profitability.
Recommendation
Setting wage levels has always been tricky for employers, because gauging whether higher pay motivates employees to make a measurably positive impact on the bottom line is difficult. In this first-of-its-kind research report, academics James Hesford, Nicolas Mangin and Mina Pizzini draw significant conclusions about the connections among higher wages, productivity and profitability from a US hotel chain’s actual results. getAbstract recommends this scholarly study to anyone charged with making compensation-related decisions.
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About the Authors
James Hesford is an associate professor at the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, where Nicolas Mangin is an assistant professor. Mina Pizzini is an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
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