Pay Injustices

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🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Are you getting paid unfairly? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Shirli Kopelman, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. They talk through what to do when a poor performer gets paid more than you, when the company salary structure is making people quit, and how to ask for more money when your boss leaves and you do their job.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.0	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.0	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:06.0	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.0	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:21.6	We can do something about them.
0:24.6	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.6	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas, and with the help of experts and insights from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:41.9	Today we're answering your questions about pay injustices.
0:44.2	And here to help us is Shirley Copelman.
0:47.6	She's a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
0:52.0	She also wrote the book, Negotiating Genuinely, Being Yourself in Business.
0:54.1	Shirley, thanks so much for being on the show.
0:59.5	Oh, I'm delighted to join you today. We were surprised by the number of questions we got about pay inequality. As a negotiation expert, do you find that people focus on what their peers are making,
1:08.4	but then when they find out not being happy about it.
1:11.1	Is that just inevitable even if it does them more harm than good sometimes?
1:14.7	I think it's part of human nature.
1:17.2	When we find out it's very hard not to have comparisons.
1:20.6	But we don't have to fall into that trap, right?
1:24.0	Of course, you could take it the other way.
1:25.8	If someone's making more, what are they doing, and how is that an opportunity for me?
1:29.3	But I think the natural reaction people have is to think something's unfair.
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