caa a22 4500 605483388 CHVBK 20210128100431.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2100-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2100-4 Are You Satisfied With Your Pay When You Compare? It Depends on Your Love of Money, Pay Comparison Standards, and Culture [Elektronische Daten] [Roberto Luna-Arocas, Thomas Tang] We develop a theoretical model of income and pay comparison satisfaction with two mediators (love of money and pay comparison standards), examine the direct and the indirect paths of our model, and treat culture (the US vs. Spain) as a moderator. Based on 311 professors in the US and Spain, we demonstrate a positive direct path and a negative indirect path. Our subsequent multi-group analysis illustrates: For American professors, their direct path shows that income is directly related to high pay comparison satisfaction. Their indirect path reveals the following new insights: Professors with high income have a strong love of money orientation, set their pay equity comparison standards (deserved pay and other's salary) significantly higher than their own salary, and as a consequence, have low pay comparison satisfaction. For Spanish professors, love of money is not related to their pay comparison standards which are slightly (non-significantly) higher than their own self-reported income. Neither the direct nor the indirect path is significant. The standardized total effect of income to pay satisfaction is positive for American professors, but negligible for Spanish professors. Are you satisfied with your pay when you compare? Our results demonstrate that pay comparisonsatisfaction depends on not only one's income but also one's love of money and pay equity comparison standards which mayvary across cultures. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Professors' income nationallicence Money attitude nationallicence Love of money nationallicence Pay comparison standards nationallicence Pay comparison satisfaction nationallicence Internal and external referent nationallicence Deserved pay nationallicence Other's pay nationallicence The US nationallicence Spain nationallicence Cross-cultural nationallicence Luna-Arocas Roberto Department of Management, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain aut Tang Thomas Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 516, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/2(2015-05-01), 279-289 0167-4544 128:2<279 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2100-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2100-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Luna-Arocas Roberto Department of Management, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tang Thomas Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 516, 37132, Murfreesboro, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/2(2015-05-01), 279-289 0167-4544 128:2<279 2015 128 10551