Paying all the workers the same salaries in a company promotes harmony and respect amongst colleagues. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Paying all the workers the same salaries in a company promotes harmony and respect amongst colleagues. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

 

There is a section of the working populace who believes that disbursing equal remuneration is what keeps employees cordial and reverent towards each other and consequently attached to an organisation. I completely disagree with this notion and this essay will elaborate on the following as my reasons. Firstly, there will be a very cold and dissatisfied workforce and secondly since the economics is about being equal there will be no motivation.

 

To be giving every employee the same pay is like feeding an elephant and a goat the same amount of fodder. One of them is not going to have a stomach full or one of them is going to waste it. This clearly illustrates the imbalance between two differently abled entities. A similar imbalance at the workplace will create numerous problems for the staff and the management which in turn will directly affect the production capabilities and capacity of the organisation. For example, as per the Pareto principle, we’ll see that the twenty percent of employees who contribute towards the eighty percent of growth slowly reduce their engagement for they’d be totally dissatisfied as contributors without financial incentives associated with their performance.   

 

Rewards and recognition are an instinctive part of the animal psyche. Such responses and behaviours are associated with even lesser intelligent animals. This means that we all look out for a pat on the back and in the absence of it, it emotionally plays on our productive capabilities. For example, a scientist demonstrated the relationship between work and reward with two monkeys, in spite of them doing the same job were given different rewards. Bananas and carrots. The monkey getting the carrots after a while refused to even eat it. This clearly demonstrated that pay per performance is an impressed behavioural disposition of all animals. Thus, clearly proving that disparities in compensations yield undesirable outcomes.

 

In conclusion, it is more than apparent by the arguments above that a Utopian culture of equal pay irrespective of the performance will keep everybody content is merely an imagination of a creative mind. Hence I reiterate that it is important to commensurate the workforce basis their performance and contribution less one is planning an imminent disaster.

 

Written by Mansi Kharbanda | Edited by David Conrad Linus (aka John Smith)