Salary discrimination in corporate... a message from nature

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Discrimination is the philosophy of life and is the gift of evolution.  Hence no one can be choosy by being ‘choice less’.  I shared the above when I was interacting with a few people from different corporate.   They all had one question in common.  The question was why some people with least educational qualification, because of they were with the corporate for several years, earning more salary whereas such fat offers were not given even to a highly qualified persons who joins the organization recently. 

 

If the educational qualification were to be associated with ones knowledge, capability and understanding, they were right that the qualified people should be offered high salary.  If the experience only matters, why the corporate then looking for highly qualified people? Why are they hiring them?

 

The people should understand that in biology and in nature, such disparity and discrimination exist.  Like how the first joined person in a corporate enjoys fat salary, the chick from the first laid egg of some birds enjoy extra privileges than the chicks that hatch out from last laid eggs in the same brood.   Such phenomena are called ‘hatching asynchrony’ and ‘egg mass variation’. 

 

Most of the birds lay more than one egg during every breeding season.  The eggs are laid at different day intervals.  It has been noticed that the eggs that were laid on the day one were bigger in size with high egg content than the eggs that were laid on the last day.  When the eggs were laid in different days, naturally the first chick will be from the first egg.  This differences in the hatching time of different eggs is called ‘hatching asynchrony’. 

 

The first chick will have the greater care and attention of the parent and grow relatively bigger than the later hatched chicks.   When the parent come to feed the nestling, the first born chick, because of its size and strength grab the food faster and grow fatter than others.  This has been scientifically studied and well proven. 

 

May be ‘first come best served’ is the law these birds follow.  If we ask, do the parent birds discriminate between the first born chicks and the later born chicks?  Such possibility is remote.  But still such discrimination happens.  Is the first born chick wants to suppress its later born siblings?  

 

During nesting stage, such disparity exists, at least in the life of many passerine birds of altrecious chicks. 

 

The larger question is will the first born chicks outperform its later born siblings in real nature?  No studies suggest such possibility. 

 

My answer to the question was that some may be a just graduate but earns fat salary whereas a MBA graduate from a premier business school or a Ph.D scientist may earn less salary.   Remember that the graduate may be working with the same organization for donkey years.  They are like first born chicks.  But you are all later born chicks.  Respect the ‘hatching asynchrony’ was my answer.  Such corporate defects are inevitable evil.  Accept, and then search for better vista, you will be successful.  

 

Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai

 

  

 

 

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