Wage Drift Productivity Drift and Managerial Strategy

Abstract

A DISTINCTION must be made at the outset between wage drift—the movement of plant‐level earnings away from centrally negotiated rates of pay; and productivity drift—the movement of plant‐level earnings away from plant productivity. In this paper, I focus on the latter, in the belief that if the factors causing earnings movements at plant level were better understood managers would be in a position, if they wished, to do something to control them.

Citation

LUPTON, T. (1969), "Wage Drift Productivity Drift and Managerial Strategy", Management Decision, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 16-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb000889