This paper offers an explanation for the phenomenon of declining democratic engagement. The paper assumes that what happens at work is the primary driver of what occurs outside of the workplace. If workers are exposed to the formalities of collective bargaining and union representation they also...

The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other positive effects of a motivational type. We present a theoretical framework in which motivational effects of HRM are conditional on its intensity, utilizing especially the idea...

Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...

Key note address to POEK 2012 Personnel Economics Conference, Paderborn, Germany

Presentation to Annual WPEG Conference 2013, Sheffield.

Reports the main findings from the 2004 workplace employment relations survey (WERS 2004) conducted by the DTI, Acas, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Policy Studies Institute. This fifth survey in the series provides a nationally representative account of the state of employment...

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice à especially union-only voice à has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice...

Using linked employer–employee data for all China's public listed firms over the period 2001–10, we find top executive compensation exhibits many of the traits familiar in the Western literature, although sometimes in a more muted way, and with some clear exceptions. We also find a role for...

Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...