Most work on high-performance work systems has examined only the direct relationship between a set of management practices and performance outcomes. This presumes that any connection operates through the incentive and motivational effects captured as 'high-commitment' or 'high-involvement'...

The advent of the Single Market is seen as central to the interests and development of multi-national capital based in Europe. Indeed, much of the motivation for the change involved an attempt to strengthen European multinationals in relation to those based in Japan and America. This strategy...