英文摘要 |
This paper reports the results of a longitudinal field study examining the effects of adopting both nonfinancial performance measures and job redesign on employee performance. A commercial bank was the research site. The bank adopted nonfinancial performance measures in July 1995 and redesigned credit-making jobs in its retail banking activities at five branches in January 1996. Prior to the job redesign, sales representatives were jointly responsible for all credit-making functions, including credit-extension and credit-verification. After the change, sales representatives were responsible only for credit-extension while credit verifiers handled credit-verification. Panel data for 17 sales representatives over 60 months (1993 through 1997) were obtained to assess the effects of adopting nonfinancial measures on employee performance. Using fixed-effects regression analysis, the results are shown to be consistent with the predictions of agency theory: although loan amounts and interest income decreased following adoption of nonfinancial measures to evaluate and compensate the performance of sales representatives, loan profit increased significantly. This paper also hypothesizes that employee performance increases with the fit between incentive systems based on nonfinancial measures and job design. The empirical tests of this prediction rely on an interrupted time-series design, using performance data of 51 sales representatives in the 1995-1997 period. After the change in job design—separation of the credit-making jobs— along with introduction of incentive systems based on nonfinancial measures, the treatment group demonstrated greater improvements in productivity and quality performance. This result supports the hypothesis developed. |