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Record W4407743167 · doi:10.1016/j.mar.2025.100927

How the realized measure of a worker’s performance affects their perception of their compensation

2025· article· en· W4407743167 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueManagement Accounting Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersGeorgia State UniversityUniversity of Arizona
KeywordsMeasure (data warehouse)Compensation (psychology)PerceptionAccountingBusinessEconometricsComputer scienceEconomicsPsychologyData miningSocial psychology

Abstract

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Workers often struggle to fully appreciate the quality of their performance. Rather, workers use the measure of their performance that is realized from their firm’s measurement system, which is typically imperfect, as a guide to do so. This study examines how workers’ perceptions about their compensation depend on the realized measure of their performance. Our experimental results suggest that before performing a task, workers display a fairness sentiment whereby they expect compensation to decrease as the measure of performance suggests worse performance. However, once the measure of their performance is realized, workers’ fairness sentiments weaken, and they request higher-than-expected compensation, with this deviation increasing as the realized measure worsens. Thus, a realized measure of performance distorts workers’ perceptions about their compensation and their fairness sentiments. This suggests that the benefits of perceived “fair” worker compensation are less likely to occur once workers have realized measures of performance.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.434
Threshold uncertainty score0.604

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.097
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it