Session Information
26 SES 08 C, Job Satisfaction and Motivation amongst European Education Professionals: Developing Theory and Theoretical Perspectives
Symposium
Contribution
The relationship between employees’ motivation, performance and extrinsic incentives in organizations is a controversial issue, and, as it is well known, this also applies to education contexts. In the discourse on what influences motivation and job satisfaction, the most common bone of contention is performance-related pay. This paper addresses the question: to what extent does performance-related pay influence European teachers’ motivation and job satisfaction? The paper has two parts. The first, analytical, part tries to better understand and scrutinize the foundations of and reasons for the disagreement about performance related pay. The analysis incorporates psychological and ethical issues. The processes used to determine teachers’ professional performance will be analysed, including the implications of different approaches. A review of major studies on performance-related pay in schools will be presented, including its main concrete effects. The second, empirical, part of the paper presents the results of a study of teachers’ motivation, job satisfaction and the influence on these of salary. The sample comprised teachers working in Switzerland, Italy and Finland. The commonalities and differences between and within the three sub-samples will be summarized, and these findings will be compared with the conclusions drawn from the first part of the paper.
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