| Sumario: | A study investigating factors that affect the strength of the productivity-pay relationship showed that the processes for determining pay in universities and four-year colleges differ in expected ways. Data were drawn from a survey of faculty members across all fields at 245 colleges and universities, using publication to measure productivity. The results show that productivity has a greater effect on pay in departments that have stronger norms emphasizing research, that are located in private or higher quality institutions, that are in institutions with collective bargaining agreements, that are characterized by more research collaboration and more social contact among the faculty, that are in fields with more highly developed scientific paradigms, and that have chairpersons with shorter, fixed-length terms. The effect on pay is relatively small, however, even in contexts in which merit is emphasized and productivity can be readily assessed.
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