Exposing Pay: Pay Transparency and What It Means for Employees, Employers, and Public Policy

Pay equity has become a hot topic recently with pay transparency viewed as an important way to narrow gender and racial pay gaps. Exposing Pay offers evidence-based insights into how pay policies and practices impact outcomes at individual, organizational, and societal levels. Without taking a position one way or another, this volume presents the good and the bad of pay transparency. Most importantly, it presents a reader friendly summary of the evidence demonstrating when and for what outcomes pay transparency may be beneficial, or alternatively, detrimental, thus providing policy makers, managers, and HR specialists with the basis for making evidence-informed decision.

Peter A. Bamberger is the Domberger Professor of Management at Tel Aviv University's Coller School of Management, and Research Director of the Cornell ILR School's Smithers Institute. His research examines pay communication and compensation strategy, pro-social behavior, occupational health psychology, and the cognitive implications of discrete workplace events. Author of several books including Human Resource Strategy (Sage, 2000; Routledge, 2014) and Mutual Aid and Union Renewal (Cornell, 2001), Bamberger has published over 100 referred journal articles. He currently serves as the Vice-President Elect of the Academy of Management.