High-involvement management and pay in Britain

High-involvement management practices have well-established benefits for employers, but what do they do for employees? Using a nationally-representative survey of British private-sector workplaces, high-involvement management is shown to be associated with higher pay. The wage premium is little affected by the choice of employee involvement practices (e.g., teams versus quality circles), but it appears only where employee involvement practices are supported by job security guarantees. Powerful trade unions increase the premium.