PETER BOXALL is a Professor of Human Resource Management and the Head of the Department of Management and Employment Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an Associate Editor of the "Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources" and a member of the International Advisory Board of "Human Resource Management Journal," JOHN PURCELL is the Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Bath. He is editor of the "Human Resource Management Journal "and a Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee.