Why there will be no pay transparency obligation in job offers in Poland? On challenges for the development of social innovations in people management processes

Abstract

In December 2019 a proposal to introduce the obligation to provide transparent information on salaries in job offers was submitted to the Polish parliament. This proposal was criticized by representatives of employers and state administration and received a negative opinion from the Council of Ministers. In this article, we conduct an analysis of these critical comments to find an answer to the question of why there will be no pay transparency in job offers in Poland. The problem of pay transparency has been placed in the broader theoretical context of social innovation. Thematic analysis revealed seven challenges for the pay transparency as a social innovation: 1) preferences to maintain the status quo, 2) pseudo-innovation, 3) mismatch between innovation and reality, 4) resistance from those who lose something JOURNAL OF MODERN SCIENCE TOM 1/48/2022 str. 365-385 www.jomswsge.com