Tag: trust

  • Pay Transparency – Benefits and Dangers

    Pay transparency (or salary transparency) is a policy that makes information about salaries and benefits available to any employee or even to general public. It is a quite controversial approach, so in this article I sumarise existing practices and share personal experience regarding pay benefits and dangers it brings. Pay transparency in context of this…

  • How to Be a Good Manager

    Managing is extremely difficult. Looking back, being an individual contributor has certain benefits. As a contributor, you are responsible only for your own actions, you are almost not involved in politics, and the work scope is focused and specific. Sometimes I do miss those days, but the complexity of management makes it enough fun and…

  • How to Track Employees

    Micromanagement is less effective than aligning company and employee interests via proper goal setting. The fact that you, as a manager, are not able to set goals and understand your coworkers does not mean that they have to suffer. Nobody stops you from tracking your workers, but be ready that they will slack and leave…