On 17/02/2018 15:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
dennis@home wrote:
And this line manager is going to set the salary of each and every
person on a regular basis? Secretly, I assume? Or are you going to
make these figures available to the workforce?

Is you wage a secret or do you tell everyone what it is?

When I worked for a large company it was absolutely not a secret. Based on
a grade and pay scale, same as everyone else.

So they had a big problem, you got paid the same for doing the same job
however well you did it.
Might as well do it badly.

Of course in the sort of job I did nobody else did the same, you were
judged on you ability to design solutions to problems and design new
services and/or products.

Then you would have to be able to get the hardware and software
engineers to be able to use that solution.

If you could design new solutions/systems/products you got on, otherwise
you may as well be a programmer or a test engineer.



You only have to look at the trouble the BBC is in by trying to keep pay a
secret. Although that only really applied to very small numbers of those
it employed in one way or another.


Public services shouldn't be allowed much secrecy or they will do stupid
things like paying presenters a fortune so they don't go and work for ITV.