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Factors Contributing to Pay Equity Issues

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What are some factors that would constrain or facilitate implementation of pay equity issues? References please.

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Some factors that constrain implementation of pay equity include favoritism, nepotism, and discrimination. For example, the firm discriminates against women. It will pay lower wages to women. Similarly, if the owner of a firm favors friends and relatives and gives them higher pay when compared with others pay equity cannot easily be implemented. Also in a firm where employee motivation is low pay equity may not easily be ...

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