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A pedestrian walks past Nike advertising in Shanghai, China, on July 6, 2018. This week, Nike became the latest example of companies unexpectedly raising wages when it said in a memo to employees that the company would adjust the pay of about 10 percent of its 74,000 workers and revamp its bonus system.

Why some workers are seeing unexpected pay raises

More and more companies are making broad pay adjustments after taking deep dives into worker pay data. They are auditing their payrolls for gaps between men's and women's pay, tweaking...
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A field guide to jerks at work

Ten years ago, the typically sober and staid management book genre welcomed an off-color title to its shelves. Despite a name unable to be printed in a family newspaper, Stanford...
Democratic National Committee employee Lizzie Ellis, right, takes payment from Priscilla Jenkins, of Maine, for a glass of lemonade during an Equal Pay Day event with a lemonade stand "where women pay 79 cents per cup and men pay $1 per cup, to highlight the wage gap" on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.

Push for pay transparency grows stronger

The Trump administration has halted an Obama-era rule requiring large companies to share data with the government about how they pay employees by race and gender - but human resources...
Indra K. Nooyi is chief executive of PepsiCo and one of the highest-ranked female leaders in corporate America.

Why it’s smart to invest in female-led companies

In recent years, some financial services companies have been adding investment products that place bets on female-led firms, investing in companies that have either women as chief executives or diverse...