What were the strengths and weakness of the approach Kumar took to negotiate a higher starting salary?
Gender inequality in organizations is a complicated phenomenon that can be seen in organizational structures, processes, and practices frequently. For women, some of the most harmful gender inequalities situations are always occurred in human resources activities because HR practices may affect the hiring, training, pay, and promotion of women.
Strengths: Firstly, it is good for Kumar to be aware to negotiate with the salaries may be different by gender and so to ask about relevant issues. In the same time, it is clearly for Kumar Make to remain very interested in the position throughout the negotiation. It is also a good way to let the employer know she is an in-demand candidate and have other options as Kumar mentioned about she also has other options to choose.
Weakness: Kumar firstly should be prepared and find out the salary range for exact position in the whole market and compare with similar positions in other companies as well. Meanwhile, it is so directly for Kumar to say her salary expectation (since she already knew the gap between the expectation and the real salary is not much little) because as we known that female leadership is more emotionally expressive, so it is why McKinlay is sensitive when face toward someone who asks questions about salaries so directly. For Kumar, it is helpful for her to conduct research on the prospective employer (For example,
Arlan has a suitable alternative candidate in Betts Cook; that being said, if Jane is the top choice, Arlan is best moving forward with a competitive offer. Based on the quality of the second choice candidate, a best-shot offer is not necessarily needed. While it could serve to secure Jane’s acceptance quickly, Arlan is safe offering a fair offer to Jane and negotiating small details without making an over-the-top deal to begin with. Arlan is aware of the salaries offered within his industry as well as Jane’s current salary, so he is well prepared to negotiate a fair base salary (Monster, 2014). In offering a competitive salary, Arlan is less likely to offend Jane with a lowball offer and
In today’s society, money is one of the biggest incentives in the workplace for employed professionals and is often negotiated after you impress your potential employer. I believe it is always important to negotiate salary after you impress your future employer because this is the moment in time when you have the most power to increase your salary and overall quality of life in this position. This past week I got to interview with a potential employer, CVS Caremark and utilize my newfound negotiation skills to request a higher paying salary. Before the interview, I knew I wanted to take a different approach to negotiating salary so, I used essential elements out of the class textbook Negotiation and Dispute Resolution by Beverly J. Demarr and Suzanne C. De Janasz. Furthermore, I will be discussing how I prepared before for the interview, what I have learned from the experience, and the results of the salary negotiation. Also, it is important to highlight the key elements to negotiating salary and why we are so invested into negotiating salary.
The target point for the salary issue I estimated at $88,000 with a resistance point of $88,000 with a $2000 increase after six months. I made this inference during the negotiation. $88,000 was the initial offer given by Bultema this is why I assume that the offer was the target point. As for the resistance point, during the negotiation as were talking about the salary, offered me $88,000 with a $2000 increase after six months. Her assertiveness to not go hire than that offer signaled to me her stake in the offer and to assume that the offer was her resistance point. According to Bultema, the interest behind this issue was that the salary offered was already higher than what is normally given to an entry level manager straight out of college. Therefore, to keep moral within the department, Bultema will try to offer the best salary that is closest to the median as possible.
Women are burdened with many obstacles to achieve equality in the work place. In the corporate and
4. Although I cannot know for certain but I can assume that in this negotiation my opponent’s five most important issues would be: (1) keep my salary the same or as close to the current amount that it is now, (2) increase the amount of work that I do without any or a significant increase in the salary that I am paid, (3) any increase in salary is mirrored with an equal increase in duties and responsibilities, (4) keeping the work circumstances as they presently are arranged; or more specifically keeping the status quo, and (5) decreasing my salary but keeping my work level the same or increasing it.
Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever write in their article “Low Goals and Safe Targets” about the effect of setting goals that are higher than most. They claim that people who go into negotiations with more ambitious goals tend to get more of what they want than people who go in with more moderate goals. Furthermore, they present the idea that women set less aggressive goals than men, make more modest offers, and concede more rapidly. Also, women tend to be less comfortable negotiating, so they only ask for things that are easy to get. To support their view, Babcock and Laschever recite situations experienced by both men and women. The main situation involves a man, John, and a women, Delia, who were both hired at the same medical school right
Boseman remain intimately involved in this process, empower HR to own most of the aforementioned research, and maintain ownership of the responsibility of speaking to Julia and resolving her issues. Doing so would enable Dr. Boseman to learn additional information about the company’s compensation strategy and methodologies and allows her to work as Julia’s advocate when appropriate throughout the process while balancing her responsibilities as a steward of the company. Furthermore, it enables HR to remain a secondary point of escalation within the company for Julia should she be dissatisfied with the HR and legal approved resolution provided by Dr. Boseman at the conclusion of the examination of salary inequity. In conclusion, if Dr. Boseman is empathetic, open minded, highly communicative, thorough, and proactive in her approach to handling this issue, there is a strong chance the company will have the opportunity to educate Julia regarding the company’s pay practices, appropriately address her concerns, and/or resolve any inadvertent salary inequities without litigation or intervention from the
Women have experienced discrimination since the beginning of time and in some countries women still do not have certain rights. In America, companies still tend to discriminate against women. The discrimination can be shown in different forms such as unequal opportunities to be hired, unequal pay, making it harder for women to get a promotion, women getting scrutinized more harshly than men, and even basing all these other aspects on the fact that women can get pregnant or already have children. Women also may face the “glass ceiling” in the workplace. These continuous discriminations are a leading factor as to why women do not reach for their full potential or believe they cannot speak up.
Women sought to overcome poor working conditions and low pay is to end segregation, integrate the women’s job in their proper place in the rate structure, make it possible for women to be upgraded to any job in the plant, and established identical seniority rights based on lengths of service of service without regard to sex, marital status, race or color. Women in UE are determined to win the rates and job rights in which they are entitled. they have been meeting in conference all over the country to discuss urgent problems of meeting the high cost of living on paycheck even lower than other workers of physical suffering caused by growing speedup in the plant, couple with care home and children after full workday. Additionally, women in UE
Last but not least, Vicky must consider the duty to the future employees of the company. If the key personnel of the other firms accept the generous but wicked offer from K.I., then it is clear they are absolutely unaware of the potential consequences of their decision. Vicky has to make sure that the new employees know what the future might hold for
The seriousness and scope of gender discrimination lies in the fact that although studies have shown that companies with greater gender parity perform better both internally and financially, women are still significantly underrepresented in all levels of employment, notably senior leadership.
Human resources practices are related with the pay of new hires on their salary history, rather than on responsibility and experience, also perpetuates the wage gap. (Human Resource Management Department Report). When increases in salary for promotions are based on current salary, women have difficulty catching up to their male counterparts. According to the National Committee on Pay Equity, stereotyping continues, since
Negotiation is a complex process. Fells (2009) defines negotiation as “a process where two [or more] parties with differences which they need to resolve are trying to reach an agreement through exploring for options and exchanging offers” (p.3). For most employers, salary negotiation is standard and expected. For the prospective employee, negotiating a salary and benefits package requires knowledge of negotiation tactics and an understanding of his or her desired outcome. Furthermore, effective negotiation requires the negotiating parties to adapt his or her tactics and approach to the environment (Korobkin, 2014). Negotiating salaries is unique because the stakes are
* Insist on objective criteria: It was very important that we insisted on objective criteria during the negotiation. I asked him the reasons for the hike he was asking for. I also told him the reasons why I could not offer him the hike he was expecting. I was open to him asking me questions and wanted him to be satisfied with what he was being offered. I believe that employee satisfaction is important and it is important that he did not leave the room feeling unsatisfied. I was convinced that a salary hike of around 6 2/3% was too low
“When salaries aren't secret?” The major problem in this case was that they did know about the problem themselves and that is why it was becoming quite apparent that the salaries were no secret although they should have been kept a secret. It was a part of the company policy that they were not supposed to disclose such information but it is part of human nature that they do so on a regular basis and then when do start comparing the problems get further compounded. This was the problem that they did not know about and it had been persistent for a long time. Problems cause symptoms and vice versa and even in this case this was precisely what was happening and the people were under stress and in some cases they were even pretending to be in trouble when they were not. This was their way of finding out things from the other end and they also wanted to get things done their way in this manner by pressurizing the management. Often, the symptoms are directly described in the case, whereas the problems did not exist in the first place. Problems are related to one another and as per the situation the mechanisms that are causing the problem were the discretion policies of the company and the casual behavior of the employees. In light of the organization behavioral studies it becomes apparent that it is innate to human nature that they do interact in work environment and the things, which have to be kept secret, must be kept secret to begin with and all else should be disclosed