Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of pay diversity between groups, for example, across competing workplace teams. Design/methodology/approach – In Study I, 60 future managers from Newcastle, Australia, were paid either $1 or $2 to work on an identical intrinsically...

Purpose – The guest editorial seeks to introduce the papers in this special issue, which focus on the contribution which industrial and organizational psychology can make towards poverty reduction. It also aims to suggest future research directions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – International development policy proposes that reducing poverty depends on alignment of international aid projects with local priorities, which would imply a role for local as well as expatriate job experts in job selection processes. This paper aims to explore whether person‐job...

Despite a growing body of findings that individualistic achievers incur punitive social costs in the workplaces of collectivistic and equalitarian cultures, little attention has so far been paid to measuring such motivational gravity in psychometrically appropriate ways. From egalitarian...