Occupational Inequality and Pay Gaps in TESCO: Causes and Solutions

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ETHICS, SOCIETY AND EMPLOYABILITY
In any society and organisation people faces many
challenges that affects them psychologically, socially and
emotionally, one such problem is occupational inequality.
In the following report an explanation of causes for socio-
economic inequality are given and how can these
inequalities can be eradicated with proper guidance and
rules in an organisation.
INEQUALITY IN THE SOCIETY AND THE WORKPLACE
 There prevails unequal treatment among people due to reasons that arises due to living in a diversified
environment.
 The people are treated exceptionally based on their looks, gender, height, race, caste, weight, and many other
reasons which is termed as inequality.
 TESCO PLC is a British international retail shop headquartered in England and formed in the year 1919.
 This organisation is a well reputed one but while there are certain inequality practices that prevails under the
table.
 The organisation has been reportedly claimed for remuneration discrimination across various groups, genders,
races and occupation of their employees.
Pay Gaps (Superiors V/S Staff or Gender Pay Gaps)
 Pay gap refers to the condition where the measures of difference in median hourly earnings of one person in
comparison to another, with the change in their gender, race, job position etc.
 The gender/hierarchy pay gap or gender/hierarchy wage gap refers to the average difference between the
remuneration of men and women or Superiors(CEOs) and staff members.

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 In TESCO there prevails biases in pays to the male and female employees due to various reasons, but this
causes inequality at the societal level and workplace.
 Due to pay gaps the employees that are biased, feels dissatisfied, their morals, efficiency and ability to work
declines and they do not want to put extra efforts as their efforts go wasted.
Causes of Pay Gaps in an Organisation:
 Pay gaps are a product of many factors that highly influence remuneration of individuals in TESCO.
 These factors are misunderstood as gender, caste, racial, or other exceptions that causes increase or decrease in
the pays of employees. But, the main reasons behind the unequal pays among the employees of TESCO are as
follows.
Occupational and Educational Segregation: Stereotypes
about the abilities and skills considering with women are
associated with the low pays. TESCO under-evaluated
women, that is caused due to a mind-set among people
which leads women in occupation related to cleaning,
admin, catering in retail sector. In many countries there are
boundaries for women that are forced by society on them
related to their education and working independently.
Women education is not considered worthy to family and
society that causes hindrances in their education, due to
this woman fall behind the men.
Job Evaluation, Rating and Training: This is not
usually intentional but due to less efforts in physical
tasks and low educational qualifications, women are
paid less for the same work that may be similar or of
same value as male colleagues' also works in. Varying
training efforts may be a factor which leads
individuals to face disproportionate earnings and
employees may not have save level of extra pays for
overtime work. The management in TESCO does not
need to create these divides, by using various
equalisers the company may balance these factors
among all the employees.