This paper reports on the results of a two‐year study of the effects of newly introduced incentive payment systems (funded by the Department of Employment and the Social Science Research Council). At the time the study began many organisations in Britain were considering introducing self...

A DISTINCTION must be made at the outset between wage drift —the movement of plant‐level earnings away from centrally negotiated rates of pay; and productivity drift —the movement of plant‐level earnings away from plant productivity. In this paper, I focus on the latter, in the belief...