Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284765 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Human Resource Management Journal [ISSN:] 1748-8583 [Volume:] 32 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 151-168
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
Abstract: 
Job satisfaction helps create a committed workforce with many positive effects, such as increased organisational citizenship behaviour and reduced absenteeism. In turn, job satisfaction can be increased through gratifications, such as wage increases and promotions. But human satisfaction is prone to being governed by the homeostatic principle and will eventually return to the individual's base level. Thus, we longitudinally examined the effects of promotions to managerial positions and pay raises on job satisfaction across a period of 27 years. Our analyses were based on a large‐scale representative German panel (N = 5978 observations) that allowed us to separate the effect of a promotion from the effect of the corresponding wage increase. We found that promotions positively affected job satisfaction in the short term but diminished after 1 year. Furthermore, the influence of a promotion on job satisfaction was more pronounced for men than for women.
Subjects: 
gender
job satisfaction
promotion
reward
wages
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