Using outperformance pay to motivate academics: Insiders’ accounts of promises and problems (AUR 57 02)

By Ian Dobson (NTEU National Office). Many researchers have investigated the appropriateness of pay for outperformance, (also called ‘merit-based pay’ and ‘performance-based pay’) for academics, but a review of this body of work shows that the voice of academics themselves is largely absent. This article is a contribution to addressing this gap, summarising the views of a sample of academics at one Australian university about the promises and problems of outperformance pay. More...