Employee Relations: Volume 33 Issue 2

Flexible working and happiness in the NHS

Carol Atkinson, Laura Hall

This paper aims to explore the influence of flexible working on employee happiness and attitude, and the role of this within a high performance work system (HPWS).

Increasing the effectiveness of reward management: an evidence‐based approach

Michael Armstrong, Duncan Brown, Peter Reilly

This paper seeks to explore the reasons why many organisations do not evaluate the effectiveness of their reward policies and practices, examines the approaches used by those…

Influences on reward mix determination: reward consultants' perspectives

Jonathan Chapman, Clare Kelliher

Reward research has focussed on level (what individuals are paid) and structure (relationship between different levels of reward). Less emphasis has been given to reward mix…

Performance‐related pay in German public services: The example of local authorities in North Rhine‐Westphalia

Werner Schmidt, Nele Trittel, Andrea Müller

This article seeks to examine the experiences of the recent introduction of performance‐related pay (PRP) in German public services. From an industrial relations perspective, it…

“Modernising” away gender pay inequality? Some evidence from the local government sector on using job evaluation

Angela Wright

This paper aims to focus on the use of job evaluation used as a mechanism to increase gender pay equality, drawing on data from the UK local government sector.

Guest editorial

Rosemary Lucas, Carol Atkinson