What is it about unfairness? Whether it's not being invited to a friend's wedding or getting penalized for bad luck or an honest mistake, unfairness often makes us so upset that we can't think straight. And it's not just a personal issue — it's also bad for business, says Marco Alverà. He explains how his company works to create a culture of fairness — and how tapping into our innate sense of what's right and wrong makes for happier employees and better results.
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Fine, but what happened with your friend’s wedding and why weren’t you invited?
AWESOME INFORMATION AND VIDEO. THANKS
Make it illegal to force workers not to discuss salary and other benefits, so people can see that they’re being treated fairly and equally…!
Equally for their work.
Avery Lemons Or just in general.
treated with equal respect.
Avery Lemons How about you just comment with what bothers you about my original phrasing, rather than keeping suggesting your ‘change’ to it? That way, we can actually discuss what you want to say, rather than you just being a jerk online.
that dosnt work. as when workers find out what others make they can think i should make more than them as i work more while in reality the other person is more productive for example. it can make employees jealous or think there is unfairness when there isnt. because as humans we have a natural bias towards ourselves
Drink every time he says “fair”
seasong Flavin asfff too mush
To sum it up :
Fairness is important. Unfairness triggers reptilian part of the brain(Insecurity).
To-Do in your company
1. Promote culture of opinions & diversity.
2. Eliminate rules in the org that lack clarity.
Did you achieve fairness? Not yet.
Next are, Intangible elements that can’t be put into a algorithm,Then?
Turn on your hearts – Get involved & really care about your employees
You have to DO what feels RIGHT. Right price. Hire/Fire the Right Guy for the Right Reasons.
That’s cool. Why aren’t companies doing it? Doing those RIGHT things can be risky & unprofitable.
But only when you take that risk & do what feels right & sometimes irrational, fairness can be achieved.
Isn’t hiring someone based on their skin color/gender rather than their abilities and accomplishments a little unfair?
Isn’t having homogeneous and non-questioning mindsets in a company a little unfair and unproductive ?
Diversity doesnt just mean skin color but diversity of thought. Academics arent all that in the business world. Business is about competition and innovation. The only way you can keep up and thrive is with diversity. If you have no diversity, what incentive will provide you to innovate? How can you even innovate if everyone thinks the same….
BS
Communism is very FAIR – state-owned companies, life-long jobs, equal pay, etc.
mhtinla competition between companies. Not workers. If fairness really good for business, more companies will become fair.
Competition between companies? Why? The losing companies will be forced to reduce salary or even fire workers. It’s not fair.
mhtinla because communism didn’t work. Of course, if it’ll be fatal unemployment cause robots and neuronetworks, all citizens will (edit) be payed by government.
Why should someone work and someone not work? It’s not fair.
Another commie troll lol. Communism failed. Get over it.
When you treat people like people instead of like worthless and replaceable human resources they are happier and more productive, shocking.
You want this to happen fast, start introducing more democratic workplaces where you actually matter and get some say in the running and watch the unfairness levels drop, because it certainly won’t come freely from managers.
Unfortunately, the situation already got so bad in general (social and family values), and is getting worse in terms of the capitalist slavery across the vast majority of the world’s commerce and industry, that workers are being examined on a cellular level. Clearly, not all are behaving in a human manner as people (neither capitalist slaver employers, nor their antitheist accomplices). So-called “democracies” that try to assume power, rather than concede it is from the beginning God who is in power; “democracies” that rather than cooperate and obey God, are fascistic, and get broken down, very often completely.
Commerce needs serious renovation globally. First you start with protests against democracy, for theocracy. Then you demand governments subside all employers to pay workers well, if the employers can’t afford to do that; and demand as taxpayers that governments increase legal minimum pay. It can’t be done immediately everywhere, because there are so many other problems, there would be chaos, like in the film Bruce Almighty, when God says “yes” to everyone. It has to be done incrementally in the most important areas; but immediately, together with other steps to solve other problems.
This is very true you’d think all businesses would adopt this way of thinking.
Businesses work best when they’re left alone by the state.
In such a company what usually happens is that those who are greedy and don’t want to play fair will climb up the ladder, perform badly, and destroy fairness. If everyone played fairly, problem is solved. To say that people is innately fair in real life situations is ridiculous. I don’t think this analysis is deep enough. Fairness is needed, but implementing it is why we need assessment and business good practices.
50% women, 50% men does make a *good mix for groups.* When one gender does dominate the work environment, then the groups do have nothing to brag about the other gender or team. Women start picking at each-other, and men start to make pranks and silly games.
As a 12 year old EVEN I can see that the world needs to work on true fairness not by participation awards or everyone gets a trophy scenario we need to work on our small needs and basic human mannering i have been raised by a loving family, and i love it when they give me ACTUAL criticism and don’t baby me when i lose i treasure their honest opinion and that gives me comfort to be with them. i love watching tedtalks and learning about physiological and social experiments and or research and it is eyeopening honestly. and i love hearing peoples stories and self exploration and revelations okay i’m done talking bye! <3
Unfairness is an extremely subjective experience. Who is to decide what is fair?
We do not have an innate sense of fairness. Humans are subjective, not objective.
Personally, treating people equally in a company is not fair. The hard workers will feel unfair watching other clock-watchers to get the same salaries.
And the law system. Very unfair.
He uses the word “fairness” a lot,
but what he talks about (regarding work)
is not fairness but lack of responsibility.
Fairness means getting rewarded accurately
for your contributions. And that is pretty much the oposite
of what he suggests.
This video is boring! This is so unfair! :0