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Compensation Flap: What Satya Nardella Should Have Said
- skmurphy 12y agoBob Lewis offers a practical perspective on salary negotiations in the workplace and suggests an alternate answer for Satya Nardella's recent kerfuffe: Nardella’s response was, in many respects, thoughtful. The problem was that he failed to include something critical, namely, useful advice for the world as it actually is. A far better response would have been: "The situation for women at Microsoft … and at any other company, but I only have influence over Microsoft...should be exactly like the situation for male employees. What we’re striving for is that no employee should ever have to ask for a raise or promotion. We want every employee to be in a position they can succeed in, and that provides them with opportunities to achieve and grow. And we want to pay every employee what he or she is truly worth. If we’re failing to do that for any employee, that employee should make her...or his...case and we should listen and make an objective judgment. We should give that employee a raise or promotion if one is warranted, and an honest response either way." Were Mr. Nardella’s words disrespectful to women? I don’t think so. They were worse than that. They were terrible advice.