Have new configurations of labour-management practices become embedded in the British economy? Did the dramatic decline in trade union representation in the 1980s continue throughout the 1990s, leaving more employees without a voice? Were the vestiges of union organisation at the workplace a...

In 2007 HM Revenue & Customs commissioned a methodological review of research with large businesses, their motivation being to examine best practice in research with this population with the aim of identifying strategies for minimising the burden of their research whilst maximising large...

Understanding what determines workplace performance is important for a variety of reasons. In the first place, it can inform the debate about the UK's low productivity growth. It is also enables researchers to determine the efficacy of different organisational practices, policies and payment...

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in both countries. However, in Britain the effect is confined to the...

The past quarter century in Britain has seen a concurrent decline in collective expressions of conflict and growth in the individualised expression of conflict, most transparently manifest in a dramatic fall in the incidence of strikes and a rising tide of claims to the Employment Tribunal. This...

Using panel data for all of China's public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to firm performance, although the elasticities are lower than for the United...

WERS experienced a substantial decline in the response rate for the main management interview between 1998 and 2004 (from 80% to 64%). Whilst non-response does not necessarily introduce bias into the achieved sample for a survey, higher rates of non-response necessarily provide greater leeway...

This report uses the Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2008 to investigate the characteristics which make employees more or less vulnerable to adverse treatment in the workplace. The report finds that certain features of the external labour market, the product market, the employing organisation and...