In 2007 HM Revenue & Customs commissioned a methodological review of research with large businesses, their motivation being to examine best practice in research with this population with the aim of identifying strategies for minimising the burden of their research whilst maximising large...

Understanding what determines workplace performance is important for a variety of reasons. In the first place, it can inform the debate about the UK's low productivity growth. It is also enables researchers to determine the efficacy of different organisational practices, policies and payment...

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in both countries. However, in Britain the effect is confined to the...

The past quarter century in Britain has seen a concurrent decline in collective expressions of conflict and growth in the individualised expression of conflict, most transparently manifest in a dramatic fall in the incidence of strikes and a rising tide of claims to the Employment Tribunal. This...

Using panel data for all of China's public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to firm performance, although the elasticities are lower than for the United...

WERS experienced a substantial decline in the response rate for the main management interview between 1998 and 2004 (from 80% to 64%). Whilst non-response does not necessarily introduce bias into the achieved sample for a survey, higher rates of non-response necessarily provide greater leeway...

Despite its potential to raise productivity, performance-related-pay (PRP) is not widespread in market-oriented economies. Furthermore, despite secular changes conducive to its take-up, there is mixed evidence as to whether it has become more prominent over time. Ours is the first paper to...