Using a tried and tested measure of management practices which has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey … incentives for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, are correlated with both teaching and research performance conditional … on resources and past performance. Moreover, this relationship holds for all universities, not just research …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency’s performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot …, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel records …, plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service workers …

performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …

against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …