During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers. The Centre for Economic Performance is conducting a ‘before-andafter’ panel study of teachers and schools to ascertain its effects on motivation and performance. This paper...

The sheer scale and speed of the shift of payment system from time-based salaries to performance-related pay, PRP, in the British public services provides a unique opportunity to test the effects of incentive pay schemes. This study is based on the first large scale survey designed to measure...

Performance related pay has been extended to practically the whole of the Civil Service over the last few years, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer recently announced the Government's intention to enlarge its role even further. Almost no serious work on seems to have been published on whether...

Proposes a topology to capture a broad range of the country variation in such areas as recruitment and training practices, job demarcation, employee mobility and collective bargaining. Basis of the proposed topology; Implications of the empirical data on the labor markets in Great Britain and...

Executive summary: The report demonstrates that health and wellbeing policies at Royal Mail Group have had a number of significant and material effects:  Royal Mail Group has successfully tackled the issue of absenteeism (CHAPTER ONE): Royal Mail achieved significant reductions in absence –...

Note: this paper was written during 1974 and early 1975, while I was a research fellow at the LEST, with lots of advice and feedback from Rodney Crossley, François Sellier, Jean-Jacques Silvestre and Marc Maurice. I saw the paper as a possible contribution to their comparative work on France...

The development of the ‘network economy’ and project-based work challenge established methods of regulating employment relationships. There appears to be an unsatisfied demand for its greater use, especially among employers, and this may be blocked by the lack of suitable contractual forms.....