Performance
Vol 28 No 1 (2021): Performance

The Effect of Financial Incentives on Task Attractiveness and Individual Performance

Ascaryan Rafinda (Universitas Jenderal Soedirman)
Timea Gal (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business Institute of Marketing and Commerce, Hungary)
Ascariena Rafinda (Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia)
Putri Purwaningtyas (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business Institute of Rural Development and Engineering, Hungary)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of monetary incentives on unattractive task. Pre-test and post-test were conducted to examine the effect of monetary incentives on unattractive task. The data generated from University Student in Indonesia. Total 53 participant follow two stages of the experiment to do the assignment. The first stage to examine individual performance in the assignment without incentives and the second stage is the treatment group. One group with financial incentives while another group without financial incentives. The T-Test was examining to evaluate the difference between pre-test and post test result. The result shows that monetary incentives could not change people perceived of unattractive task become attractive and could not increase individual performance in unattractive task. But people that perceived the assignment as attractive, they improve the performance when there are monetary incentives. This research found that money could not shift people perception on task attractiveness.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

performance

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

Performance is our bianually peer-reviewed journal, designed to accommodate research articles in the domain of management science. This journal has been published by Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman since 2003. We invite articles in all functional area of management, ...