Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Chair of Political Economy, Karlsruhe, Germany.
CESifo, Munich, Germany.
PLoS One. 2022 Aug 17;17(8):e0271762. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271762. eCollection 2022.
Many societies report an increasingly divergent development of managers' salaries compared to that of their workforce. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers' gender and incentive scheme on wages chosen for workers by conducting two experimental studies. The data reveal male managers respond in more self-oriented ways to their incentive scheme. Further, we find that experience with the workers' task can increase appreciation of workers. Effects are strongest when the managers' compensation scheme rules out self-orientation. Overall, female managers display more consistency in choosing adequate wages for workers, i.e. their choices are less affected by incentives. An increase in diversity may thus help reducing salary disparities and foster work atmosphere.
许多社会报告称，经理的工资与员工的工资相比呈现出日益趋异的发展态势。此外，管理层的多样性往往也存在不足。我们通过两项实验研究，调查了经理的性别和激励方案对其为工人选择的工资的作用。研究数据显示，男性经理会根据自己的激励方案以更自我为中心的方式做出回应。此外，我们发现，对工人任务的经验可以增加对工人的重视。当经理的薪酬方案排除自我导向时，效果最为强烈。总的来说，女性经理在为工人选择适当的工资方面表现出更大的一致性，即她们的选择受激励因素的影响较小。因此，增加多样性可能有助于缩小薪酬差距，营造良好的工作氛围。
