If you pay an employee more, do you get better ideas? An employee who thinks outside the box?

OK, then let’s look at job titles courtesy of Susanna Gallani, professor at Harvard Business School. It appears that how you pay people has a very close correlation to the innovation you can expect from them. How can a company reward “innovation” without unbalancing all the required max/min pay scales tied to titles? They need to create an atmosphere in which there is less fear — whether fear of reprisal or fear of appearing stupid or fear of failure. His job title was meaningless, but I know that he got a massive stock grant.