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Teamwork has become widely embraced in recent decades; however, its adoption carries significant implications that … require thorough understanding. In this paper, we study the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity. The use of … complementary skills. However, teamwork may also substitute intensive selection if team members engage in mutual monitoring and peer …
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-the-job training is the only management practice that is robustly and significantly associated with higher employment growth, increased …-the-job training is sub-optimal in Britain such that firms could benefit economically from increasing the amount of off …-the-job training they offer to their non-managerial employees. …
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The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
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Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for …
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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …
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This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is someone who consistently causes their team to produce more...
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This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …
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healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …
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, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …
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Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with …, less likely to participate in formal training activities. In addition, we find evidence for complementarity between … training and informal learning for both temporary and permanent employees. Our findings suggest that temporary employment need …
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