The article, based on an extensive survey of employees within a Malaysian tertiary educational institution, explores employee attitudes and perceptions towards existing pay and promotional policies and the organisational implications thereof. It was found that sizeable components of the...

Purpose – The bulk of research on approved profit sharing and SAYE schemes tends to focus on the effects of their presence/absence, which says little about how effectively such initiatives are implemented, particularly with regard to different categories of employee. This paper seeks to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the theoretical and empirical pension literatures to question whether employers are likely to gain any competitive advantage from degrading or eliminating their employees’ defined benefit (DB) pensions. Design/methodology/approach – Critical...

Which British industries make the most effective use of manpower and equipment? How does your industry compare with others? Every company that takes manpower planning seriously should know the answers to these questions, yet surprisingly few people look at the right kind of figures. Within any...

Even though an ever increasing proportion of the national output stems from the giant companies in Britain, small firms are still a significant part of the economy. The under publicised REPORT OF THE BOLTON COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY ON SMALL FIRMS indicated that there are over a million small firms...