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Dima and Slava set out to discuss transparency as a potential solution to different challenges, but spend most of the time talking about compensation transparency and its challenges and benefits.
Follow-up: do managers overdo it out of desire for everything to go smoothly?Focused #185: How to Be MiserableCompensation transparency – disclosure of employee compensation amounts, either among other employees in an organization, to owners, to government regulators, or to the public (Wikipedia)Some articles from HBR on the topic transparencyResearch: The Complicated Effects of Pay TransparencyResearch: The Unintended Consequences of Pay TransparencyWhen Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent ItTransitioning to transparency can be risky that starting point is messyTransparency on salaries and ranges would be incomplete without transparency on rules for promotions, etcHow does transparency benefit companies?Is complete transparency even possible?How to deal with misuse of information disclosed in pursuit of transparency?Transparency vs brutal honestyBiweeklycast #13 Automating The StateNext episode: book club discussion of No Rules Rules