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Trefwoorden income differences, maximum wage in the public sector
Auteurs Prof. dr. Margo Trappenburg
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Prof. dr. Margo Trappenburg
Prof. dr. M.J. Trappenburg is universitair hoofddocent Bestuurs- en Organisatiewetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht en bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek. Zij publiceert over gezondheidszorgbeleid, de verzorgingsstaat en over ethische vraagstukken. In 2014 verscheen van haar hand Loonfatsoen. Eerlijk verdienen of graaicultuur?, samen met Wout Scholten en Thijs Jansen. Trappenburg heeft een eigen website: www.margotrappenburg.nl.
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      During the first decades after World War II income policy was an important topic of public debate in the Netherlands. This changed in the eighties and nineties when gross wages were ‘demoralized’ and taken off the political agenda. Income policy was deemed pointless, inefficient, or superfluous. Moreover wages were determined according to technocratic schemes designed by consultancy firms. These schemes encourage employees to compare themselves with people with a comparable education in other organizations rather than with coworkers in their own organization thus fostering a caste mentality.
      However, following the financial crisis a cry for remoralization was launched which ended in a new law which determined that civil servants and top administrators in public organizations should never earn more than a government minister (178.000 euros per annum). In this article it is argued that such a partial remoralization of the highest wages in the public sector is unsatisfactory. It is argued that wages at large should be a moral topic for organizations that should explain their reward policy for their highest and lowest employees, thus encouraging workers to see themselves as members of their organization rather than their educational caste. Public administration scholars should play a role in this debate.

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