This article investigates the relationship between worker voice practices, employee perceptions of managerial responsiveness and labour productivity. It argues that managerial responsiveness is a critical but under-investigated variable in the study of the relationship between worker voice,...

Despite their theoretical value in tackling principal-agent problems at low cost to firms there is almost no empirical literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. Using data for China we examine their incidence and test propositions from...

Summary of a review conducted for UKCES on occupational regulation in the UK. Presented at a UKCES seminar.

Presented at the Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group (WPEG) Annual Conference, University of Kent

It has long been argued that equality of opportunity brings business benefits and that it is in employers' interest to implement policy to promote equality of opportunity. We present new evidence on this issue from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004. There do not appear to be large...

Keynote at the sixth and final seminar in the ESRC-funded series on 'Reframing resolution: managing individual workplace conflict' This presentation used data from the Workplace Employment Relations Studies of 2004 and 2011, and from the annual British Social Attitudes Surveys, to consider: (a)...

1. This report seeks to identify the key drivers of business success and failure through a review of existing literature. The review is intended to inform future work undertaken by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to evaluate the impact of government interventions on the...

Presentation to Prospect, the trade union, about union trends, influence and prospects.

Paper presented at a workshop on the methodology of workplace surveys, Korean Labor Institute, Seoul

This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...