The paper begins by outlining the context within which the pharmaceutical industry is currently operating and the characterstics which have led to its recent tendency towards concentration and restructuring.

The purpose of this paper is to begin the process of analysing the dynamics influencing the organisation of work research scientists in the industry.

There appears to be widespread acceptance amongst employees of the "fairness" of the principle of paying for performance and this is reflected in the attitudes of white color employees at phamax. At the same time there are enormous and increasingly well-documented problems in implementing...