Monetary rewards, hierarchy level and working hours as drivers of employees' self-evaluations

Christian Grund, Alexandra Soboll

In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus payments and wage increases), level of hierarchy and weekly working hours as well as interactions with gender and tenure as possible drivers of self-evaluations. Our results hint for particular relevance of working hours, and some extent of hierarchy levels and monetary rewards. We find less evidence for our hypotheses regarding interaction effects of gender and tenure.

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Year of publication:	March 2023
Authors:	Grund, Christian ; Soboll, Alexandra
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Subject:	self-evaluations \| bonus payments \| wage increases \| level of hierarchy \| working hours \| Arbeitszeit \| Working time \| Leistungsentgelt \| Performance pay \| Hierarchie \| Hierarchy \| Lohn \| Wages \| Selbstevaluation \| Self-assessment \| Vergütungssystem \| Compensation system \| Leistungsanreiz \| Performance incentive \| Arbeitskräfte \| Workforce \| Arbeitsleistung \| Job performance \| Leistungsmotivation \| Work motivation \| Arbeitszeitgestaltung \| Working time arrangement \| Schätzung \| Estimation