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Idea of the Day – The Differentiated Workforce 6

HR Sacred Cow 2     All Staff at the Same Level Should be Paid the Same.

toyota-prius

The first of my Toyota ‘whys?’ again.

The larger the organization – and as organizations grow, the HR department seems to grow accordingly – the more paranoid it becomes about equality. Professors Becker, Huselid and Beatty put it this way in The Differentiated Workforce.

Many HR leaders have spent their careers ensuring that all employees are treated equally instead of equitably (p121) [Emphasis is theirs, not mine]

They emphasize that a differentiated workforce stresses equity ahead of equality. [Their emphasis again]

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