Think of your current job, lets say that you are working in the HR department, then list mentally its features that you find stressing (stressors). How much of your salary, if any at all, are you ready give up to eliminate the most important stressors? Why?

HRM textbooks typically say that pay does not have much, if any, influence on performance at work. Although employers will be delighted to hear this claim, what do you think of it, in light of the above thought experiment?

The stressing factors in the HR department are the judgment of different candidates in accordance with the required portfolio of the company. The settlement of expected package, adequate training, and development. The main objective of the HR department is to save costs incurred on employees. The fundamental stressor is to save the cost after satisfying each and employee in an organization.

But for the sake of stressing factors, it is not beneficial to give up any extent of salary. It is because these are also important tasks of working in the HR department.

This statement seems vague because employees come to an organization for getting wages and salaries. It is the primary focus of employees for looking at optimal wages. If their wages won't be satisfactory, then their performance would go down.