Contingent reward, punishment and employee performance

Background: This paper investigated the connection between transactional leadership styles, contingent rewards, punishments, and employee performance while emphasizing employee engagement's mediating role. Existing research has predominantly focused on isolated associations between contingent rewards, punishment, and employee performance, leaving gaps in the empirical exploration of these mediating mechanisms. To address this research gap, our study has introduced a conceptual framework to understand the multifaceted connection between contingent rewards, punishment, and their effects on employee performance, with a specific emphasis on the mediating function of employee engagement.
Methods: We involved 273 full-time non-clinical healthcare professionals employed in NABH-accredited hospitals in Jharkhand, India. A structured survey instrument was employed for data collection from the specific survey participants, with the investigation of the research hypotheses conducted through the ap..., , , 1. **Title:** Coded respondent's survey data to analyze the impact of contingent rewards and punishments on employee performance, while employee engagement plays a mediating role.
2. **Introduction:** This study has introduced a conceptual framework to understand the multifaceted connection between contingent rewards, punishment, and their effects on employee performance, with a specific emphasis on the mediating function of employee engagement. This study contained 4 major study variables. To measure these constructs well-established measurement scales have been employed. A total of 49 items (6 demographic variables and 43 study variables items) were used to conduct the survey.

**3. Dataset Description:**

**Source:** data was obtained from non-clinical healthcare professionals who are basically not directly related to direct patient care services. They are responsible for all the supportive and auxiliary healthcare services who are working in the NABH-accredited hospitals, in India...