Hourly Payment and Volunteering: The Effect of Organizational Practices on Decisions about Time Use

We examine how organizational practices making an economic evaluation of time salient, such as hourly pay, can lead people to spend less time on uncompensated work--volunteering. Using nationally representative survey data, in Study 1 we showed that, with other factors that might affect time decisio...

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Published in:Academy of Management journal 2007-08, Vol.50 (4), p.783-798
Main Authors: DeVoe, Sanford E., Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Billing
Business management
Control variables
Correlation analysis
Decision making
Economic value
Hours of work
Management science
Management techniques
Marital status
Modeling
Organizational behavior
Organizational effectiveness
Payment systems
Payments
Saliency
Studies
Voluntary work
Volunteer labor
Volunteerism
Volunteers
Wages
Wages & salaries
Working time arrangements
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Summary:We examine how organizational practices making an economic evaluation of time salient, such as hourly pay, can lead people to spend less time on uncompensated work--volunteering. Using nationally representative survey data, in Study 1 we showed that, with other factors that might affect time decisions controlled, people paid by the hour were both less likely to volunteer and spent less time volunteering than counterparts who were not paid hourly. Study 2 showed that having people calculate their hourly wage was associated with decreased willingness to volunteer and that this experimental manipulation only affected people not paid by the hour.
ISSN:0001-4273
1948-0989
DOI:10.5465/AMJ.2007.26279171