Dimensions of Employee Compensation: Practical and Theoretical Implications for Superintendents

Employment represents an exchange relationship between public school boards and employees. Fundamental to this exchange relationship is compensation provided by school boards and received by employees. To capture this relationship at least in part, a model for organizational justice is used as a framework, and special attention is given to procedural and distributive dimensions of organizational justice. Procedural justice is explored through the use of earning equations designed to render a prevailing market rate, and the utility of several earning equations is assessed for different types of compensation enjoyed by educational employees. Distributive justice is approached through the lens of competing discrepancy theories of satisfaction, and the unique impact of several different referent sources used for comparison is assessed via moderated regression analysis.