Why not just pay everyone at the company the same salary, and adjust it each year to be 10% over the average salary.
That would
1. take the issue of money off the table
2. free up lots of resources spent on navigating politics, negotiating, competing with colleagues
3. probably make the workplace less hostile
4. bring out all that potential of creativity and cognitive power
It still wouldn't be a below average salary, so it wouldn't turn away the good people.
Seriously, I can't see one single reason why it wouldn't work, if people care strongly for purpose, autonomy and mastery.
I know it's (for some reason) a huge tabu to mention this, and there's always the immediate "but that's evil socialism!" comeback.
But seriously, I think it would actually make sense.
I know they did this at NeXT, and that it was abandon after a while, don't know the details of why though..
That would
1. take the issue of money off the table 2. free up lots of resources spent on navigating politics, negotiating, competing with colleagues 3. probably make the workplace less hostile
4. bring out all that potential of creativity and cognitive power
It still wouldn't be a below average salary, so it wouldn't turn away the good people.
Seriously, I can't see one single reason why it wouldn't work, if people care strongly for purpose, autonomy and mastery.
I know it's (for some reason) a huge tabu to mention this, and there's always the immediate "but that's evil socialism!" comeback.
But seriously, I think it would actually make sense.
I know they did this at NeXT, and that it was abandon after a while, don't know the details of why though..