Kessler, Ian <br/><br/>
Pay determination in the British civil service since 1979 

 -  1993 
 - p.323-40 
 - Autumn 
<br/><br/> This article traces the development of pay determination in the British civil service over the last decade. It argues that after a period of instability, the pay system established at the end of the 1980s embraced rather than reconciled two competing traditions of pay determination; one based upon the importance of traditional compatibility criteria and the other stressing flexibility to meet managerial needs. As a consequence of the difficulties which emerged under these new arrangements, neither the unions nor the government have fully achieved their pay objectives 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bureaucracy - U.K.<br/>Civil service - Salaries, etc. - U.K.