Pay Openness Movement: Is It Merited? Does It Influence More Desirable Employee Outcomes Than Pay Secrecy?

Keywords

distributive justice; informational justice; organizational citizenship behaviors; pay communication; pay openness; pay secrecy; workplace deviance

Abstract

Organizations are currently moving toward increased pay openness in the workplace; thus, it is important to determine the influence pay communication practices (pay secrecy and pay openness) have on employee outcomes and whether the increase in pay openness is merited and more beneficial for organizations. The purpose of this article is to analyze pay communication’s influence on workplace deviance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Specifically, pay secrecy practices are hypothesized to influence employees to engage in less OCBs and more workplace deviance. Informational justice and distributive justice perceptions are included as mediators. Pay secrecy leads to greater workplace deviance as well as less OCBs and justice perceptions and thus, inferring the pay openness movement is merited. A Pay Communication scale was developed and validated for this study. Practical implications, limitations, and future research directions are provided.

Publication Date

4-3-2018

Publication Title

Organization Management Journal

Volume

15

Issue

2

Number of Pages

58-77

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/15416518.2018.1471978

Socpus ID

85047987576 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85047987576

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