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...

Much management literature has been devoted to the topic of change in recent years. It has been suggested that we are facing a more dynamic environment than ever before; and many authors have suggested new approaches to managing change in organisations. Very little attention, however, has been...