Recently I posed the question “What do you think about an open Salary policy, total transparency in compensation at a company that is less than 40 people, is this a good idea? Or a recipe for disaster?” I received a Lot of Responses. I can’t Imagine what would have happened if I had asked : “How do you feel about profanity in blog posts?”
“Why don’t you ask our opinion?”
I never expected to receive so much feed back from the Question I posed on Linked in. The image above is just poking fun, becuase honestly the main feeling I got was genuine concern. The responses were passionate, but mostly concerned that I was in a position (which I am not) to make such a policy change, and that if I do it, that I will RUIN the lives of the hypothetical 40 employees. This was pretty touching, my friends, and strangers were very concerned that I would be weilding abusive and destructive power around in the name of “progressive management”. Trust me, I would never do that kind of policy change without consensus from the team. But still I do ulimately think its a good policy. The idea is simple, if you are a strong enough manager, you will deal with the inequity in pay structure. The question is whether you deal with it transparently or just try to deal with it internally and privately. Continue reading “Stupid question causes shit storm”