We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … training in order to upgrade the skill level of their workforce, even if this varies across industries. …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training (Employability-miles) voucher scheme that aims to … non-voucher training shows little relation to personality traits. From a human resources perspective, this finding … suggests that by employing a voucher scheme, the firm makes training participation more dependent on employee personality and …

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims …, participation in non-voucher training shows little relation to personality traits. From a human resources perspective, this finding … suggests that by employing a voucher scheme, the firm makes training participation more dependent on employee personality and …

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for … British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill … levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

, conditional on team performance, team payroll, and a variety of coaching quality indicators. There were also statistically …

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends …-business industry; and (3) leadership capabilities, which include management skills and a leader's innate characteristics. This paper …