Dear Colleagues,
Dr. Edwin Locke and I are working on a potential "pay-happiness" symposium for AoM 2013. If you are interested in participating in the session, please email us with a description of your intended contribution as soon as you can. The AoM submission is due in early January.
Symposium Descriptions:
Pay (money) is one of the essential dimensions of individuals' work experience. Most likely, happiness is a key concern for individuals, full-time employees included. Interestingly, however, there appears to be a dearth of research interest on pay and happiness in OB research and HRM research. It appears that both the pay research and the happiness literature have tended to leave out the work domain.
The purpose of this section is to stimulate critical thinking and research interest in pay and happiness. Quantitative and qualitative papers are all welcome.
Potential research questions:
1. How can we use OB concepts and theories to uncover the pay-happiness relationship?
2. How does study of the pay-happiness relationship contribute to the theme of AoM meeting--"Capitalism in Question"?
3. Does pay buy happiness?
4. How does the pay-happiness relationship change according to different measures of happiness (life satisfaction, emotional well-being and so no)?
5. What does the pay-happiness relationship look like?
6. How does pay comparison relate to happiness?
7. How about the effect of over-payment (received pay more than a perceived comparison standard)?
8. What roles does TIME play in predicting the pay-happiness relationship? How about to trade time for money (the time-money connection)?
If you are interested in contributing to this AoM symposium, or if you have any suggestions, please email Angus Yongheng Yao at [ yh_yao@jmsb.concordia.ca] Thank you!
Edwin Locke & Angus Yongheng Yao
Edwin A. Locke
Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus)
Robert H. Smith School of Business
(not on campus) Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
Angus Yongheng Yao
PhD in Organizational Behavior
Department of Management
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University
1445 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal (Quebec) H3G 1M8 CANADA
Best regards,
Angus Yongheng Yao
PhD in Organizational Behavior
Department of Management
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University
1445 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal (Quebec) H3G 1M8 CANADA