Question

“In some cases, “We were looking at how employees responded to managers who were five promotions away and who they explicitly thought were in positions they themselves would never achieve,” Cullen says. In those cases, the work-harder reaction was much smaller but did not become negative. When employees received salary information about managers who were closer to their own rank, they may have found the salary difference aspirational—just a promotion or two away, she says.”

The above statements indicated that disclosing manager’s salary to subordinates seems like a good idea to motivate them. If you were to disagree with this, what are your justifications?

Answer 1

Disclosing manager salary to subordinate might be a motivating factor to them but one has to observe that in the long run they consider the manager to be equal to their standard with not much difference in salary levels and they will not get to treat the person as a superior and this can lead to imbalance of work or no proper coordination between manager and the subordinates. that is the reason why not always disclosing the manager salary and other information can be helpful.