Management and Expectations Survey, 2016-2020: Secure Access

The <span style="font-style: italic;">Management and Expectations Survey (MES)</span> is a voluntary survey of British firms launched in 2017 to gather information on the use of structured management practices for the reporting period of 2016. The MES sample was a subset of the sample for the Annual Business Survey (ABS) for the 2016  reporting period, to allow the datasets to be linked. Researchers must still access the ABS as normal through the users’ chosen data access platform.  This survey builds upon a previous ONS pilot survey examining management practices, the  Management Practices Survey (MPS). Compared to the MPS, the Management and Expectations Survey (MES) has wider industry scope, including non‐manufacturing production and services industries; a larger sample size; an increase in the number of questions on management practices from 8 to 12; questions concerning managers and non‐managers separately.<br><br>The survey is designed to produce data that can be compared with a subset of the data collected in: the MPS, the US Census Bureau’s Management and Organizational Practices Survey  (USMOPS) and the German Management and Organizational Practices Survey (GMOPS). The  MES is more closely aligned (with regards to management practice questions) to the USMOPS  and GMOPS than the MPS.  <br><br><div>A second wave was launched in 2020 to gather information on the use of structured management practices for the reporting period 2019 and 2020. The survey builds upon the previous MES 2016 survey examining management practices. The data for MES 2020 were collected from November 2020 until May 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic and two national lockdowns.<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest edition information</span><br>For the fourth edition (April 2024), data and documentation for the first wave (2016) have been updated.</div>