Dr Sandy Pepper

Senior Fellow

Biography

Dr Sandy Pepper joined the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group in September 2008 as ESRC/FME Fellow. He was appointed Senior Fellow in September 2011. He previously had a long career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he held various senior management roles, including global leader of the Human Resource Services consulting practice from 2002-2006.

Dr Pepper graduated from the University of Durham in 1981 with an honours degree in Philosophy and English. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 and became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales in 1995. In 2006 he was awarded an MSc (Mastère Spécialisé) in Consulting & Coaching for Change by HEC, Paris, under a programme run jointly with Said Business School, University of Oxford. He completed a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) at the University of Surrey in January 2011.

Research interests

• HR management and labour market issues - people, jobs and pay, especially the impact of incentives and reward on the motivation of senior executives
• The relationship between management theory and practice.

Teaching

• LSE100 The LSE Course (undergraduate)
• ID437 Reward Systems - Key Models and Practices (postgraduate)
• ID439 Foundations of Business and Management for Human Resources (postgraduate)
• ID441 Contemporary Issues in HR Management (postgraduate)
• MG420 Executive Seminar Series / Dissertation (postgraduate)
• MG426 Organisations in the Economy and Society (postgraduate)

Recent publications

• Are long-term incentive plans an effective and efficient way of motivating senior executives?
  Pepper, Sandy and Gore, Julie and Crossman, Alf (2012) Are long-term incentive plans an effective and efficient way of motivating senior executives? Human resource management journal . ISSN 0954-5395 (In Press)
• The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector
  Pepper, Sandy (2011) The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector. British Politics and Policy at LSE (01 Apr 2011) Blog Entry.
• Was werden wir? Drei Szenarien zur Zukunft Arbeit
  Pepper, Sandy (2008) Was werden wir? Drei Szenarien zur Zukunft Arbeit. Internationale politik, 9 (63). pp. 22-31. ISSN 1430-175X
• Senior executive reward: key models and practice
  Pepper, Sandy (2006) Senior executive reward: key models and practice. Gower Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9780566087332
• Leading professionals: a science, a philosophy and a way of working
  Pepper, Sandy (2002) Leading professionals: a science, a philosophy and a way of working. Journal of change management, 3 (4). pp. 349-360. ISSN 1469-7017

Complete list of publications

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