The University’s Centre for Research on People and Organisational Change will host a seminar on behavioural incentive theory by Professor Alexander Pepper from the London School of Economics this Wednesday 1 November at 13:00.

The seminar will be held in room 1007 in Building 58 on Highfield Campus.

Professor Pepper will focus on The Economic Psychology of Incentives: New ways of thinking about executive pay during the seminar, one of a series by the Centre. Using insights from behavioural economics, experimental economics and economic psychology, Professor Pepper will examine whether long-term incentive plans are an effective and efficient way of motivating senior executives. He will also explore the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, discuss the importance of social comparisons (“fairness” / “inequity aversion”). He will ask if agency theory is a model fit for senior executive reward.

Professor Pepper joined the Department of Management at LSE in 2008 as an ESRC/EME Fellow, later becoming a Senior Fellow and Professor of Management Practice after a long career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) where he held various senior management roles, including global leader of the Human Resource Services consulting practice.

His research and teaching interests include organisations and management theory, with a particular focus on people, jobs and pay, especially the impact of incentives and rewards and the motivation and behaviour of senior executives. He is also interested in behavioural and new institutional economics, business ethics and the relationship between management theory and practice.

All are welcome at the seminar, which is free to attend.