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Would you work harder if your pay depended on your performance?
Ninety per cent of organisations use pay-for-performance schemes to boost motivation but many job seekers shy away from talking about money.
Join Professor Marylene Gagne as she discusses the research behind compensation systems and serves up pros and cons of pay-for-performance, revealing how these schemes impact employee motivation, performance and well-being.
A light lunch will be provided.
Attend in person to earn a stamp and go in the draw to win a $100 Guild gift card. Refer to T&C’s for more information.
Date
Thursday 16 October 2025
Time
12.15pm – 12.45pm: Networking and lunch
12.45pm – 1.30pm: Formal proceedings
Location
Think Space
Building 103.110
Curtin University
Presenters
Professor Marylene Gagne
Marylène Gagné is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at the Future of Work Institute in the Faculty of Business and Law.
The Institute promotes productive and meaningful work as essential foundations of a healthy economy and society. Marylène’s research examines how organisations, through their structures, cultures, rewards, tasks, and management, affect people’s motivational orientations towards their work, including volunteer work, and how quality of motivation influences performance and well-being in the workplace.
She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, and is associate editor for the Academy of Management Annals, Motivation Science, and Motivation and Emotion. She is also a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.
Besides being passionate about psychology, Marylène also volunteers in an animal shelter.
Paul Riley
Paul Riley is the Director, International Risk & Academic Security at Curtin University, enhancing institutional resilience to foreign interference across the University and its global campuses. Paul’s focus is on mitigating Global risks and ensuring compliance through emphasising education and awareness raising and through systemised due diligence, risk assessment and mitigation.