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...

I point out also that there are 1,800,000 more owner‐occupiers since 1979 — a policy fought tooth and nail by the Labour Party; that there has been a dramatic extension of share ownership as with British Telecom and an increase in the number of employee share option schemes.