The Impact of Matching Mission Preferences on Well-Being at Work

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Mission, Motivation, and the Active Decision to Work for a Social Cause

“…1 Indeed, nonprofit employees often receive some nonpecuniary benefits e.g. in terms of social services (see, e.g., Mosca et al, 2007;Mocan and Tekin, 2003), but they also experience more wage equity (Leete, 2000) and higher job satisfaction (Zoutenbier, 2016). 2 Experimental investigations find that reservation wages are lower in case of working for a socially responsible employer (Burbano, 2016) and that pay-for-performance seems to be mostly ineffective in mission-oriented settings (Jones et al, 2018;Ashraf et al, 2014).…”