中文摘要
组织中的工资不平等绝大多数源于员工与其老板之间的薪酬差异。但员工是否意识到这些薪酬差距?这种不平等是否会挫伤员工的积极性?为回答这些问题,我们以东南亚一家规模达数十亿美元的企业的2,060名员工为样本,开展了一项自然田野实验。我们记录到,员工对管理者工资存在大幅误判,对同事工资的误判较小但仍然显著;并且我们表明,这些认知对员工自身行为具有显著的因果效应。
Abstract
The vast majority of the pay inequality in organizations comes from differences in pay between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities? Are employees demotivated by this inequality? To address these questions, we conducted a natural field experiment with a sample of 2,060 employees from a multibillion-dollar corporation in Southeast Asia. We document large misperceptions among employees about the salaries of their managers and smaller but still significant misperceptions of the salaries of their peers, and we show that these perceptions have a significant causal effect on the employees’ own behavior.