On Thursday 16 August 2007, Steven Alligood wrote: > Hill, Greg wrote: > > This is why everyone's salary should be known to everyone else, and if > > they feel they deserve to make more, they need to prove their worth. > > Good luck convincing HR of that, but if I had a company, we'd have > > everyone's salary on the intranet. I realize that the mediocre > > employees would see this badly, but they'd leave and hopefully be > > replaced by people worth paying the higher salary. > > > > Greg > > You miss the point that HR doesn't care if you are paid what you are > worth. They get paid to get the best talent possible for the least > pay. If they can find a senior admin that they can pay less than the > juniors, they will do it. Published salary information is a very bad > idea for the HR model. > > It is also a bad idea for a general workforce. If one guy makes a lot > less and is happy with it, why put him on a comparison chart to show > that he makes less than everyone else? He will either figure it out, or > doesn't need to know.
There is a really good book about a company that was very successful by ignoring the 'usual way of doing things'. Go figure. http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workplace/dp/0446670553 Very interesting. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
