Presents a critical account of the implementation of the Management NVQ in three case study companies. Deals with two main themes: first, the way in which the candidates reacted to the management standards, reinterpreting their own roles and adopting the concept of a “real” manager, and...

Hourly productivity levels in the UK still remain behind those in some competitor countries. The governmentdevotes much policy attention to enhancing productivity and continues to emphasise its five drivers—investment,innovation, skills, enterprise, and competition. This article argues that it...

The 1980s were a period of profound economic change in the UK. The consensus politics of the post-Second World War period disintegrated in the face of mounting disillusionment with the UK's economic record. It gave way to a radical style of politics that firmly rejected intervention by the state...

The paper investigates the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using two new data sets, one of individuals the other of firms. The innovation is that the data incorporate measures of the degree of transferability of training, improved information on the...