Management Decision: Volume 18 Issue 6

Introduction to the 5th EFPS/EAPM International Work and Pay Conference

J.R. de Jong

In September 1980 the European Federation of Productivity Services and the European Association for Personnel Management held their fifth triennial joint international conference…

Total Productivity — and its Link with Pay

Tom Husband, Abby Ghobadian

As one small part of a research project funded by the Science Research Council we have been working recently inside several British factories in an attempt to isolate the…

The Effects of Recently Introduced Incentive Payments Systems in Britain

Angela M. Bowey

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…

Does the Cafeteria Plan Pay Off? An Empirical Research Study

Henk Thierry, Jules J.F. Croonen

Introduction At the fourth EFPS/EAPM International Conference on Work, Performance, and Pay (The Hague, 1977) the first author presented a paper on the general characteristics of…

Pay Policy in Sweden — Problems and Trends

Jan‐Peder Norstedt

Background There are several factors behind the current economic crisis in Sweden that started in the mid‐Seventies and which will certainly remain a feature of the economic…

Payment Systems in Smaller Enterprises in Sweden

Sven Flykt

Some Trends in the Pay Methods in Sweden SAF, the Swedish Employers' Confederation, organises 39 employer‐branch‐federations in the private sector and covers about 1,400,000…

Wage Structures and Wage Comparisons

Michael White

Wage Structures and Wage Comparisons “Fair pay” is generally regarded as one of the main objectives of wage and salary administration in organisations. It is also becoming more…

The Rewards and Compensation for Expatriates in the 1980s

J.G. Trimmer

The basic purpose of this article is to review briefly those factors most likely to have a major influence on remuneration and compensation policy for expatriates in the 1980s and…

An Experiment in Democratic Determination of Pay

T.T. Paterson

Throughout the industrialised democracies new organisational structures and systems of human relations are being developed. In Western Europe there is a movement from a capitalist…