Purpose – Various types of short training programmes exist in Germany. This article aims to evaluate short training …. Design/methodology/approach – The author measures the impact of six short training programmes on the participants. She uses …-participation as well as participation in different training types directly. Findings – The results demonstrate that in-firm training …

Purpose – Various types of short training programmes exist in Germany. This article aims to evaluate short training …. Design/methodology/approach – The author measures the impact of six short training programmes on the participants. She uses …-participation as well as participation in different training types directly. Findings – The results demonstrate that in-firm training …

(work organization on site) and their policy towards training and education. Due to the massive inflow of workers from … initially likely to have a considerable knock-on effect on the training system. However, what is even worse is that the new … supervisors directly from the pool of qualified workers. By reducing training it produces a shortage of the very resource …

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …