Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine whether the effort invested by service companies in employee training … treatment with fixed effects. Findings – The prepared models give clear empirical support to the hypothesis that training … limitations related to the use of a training indicator based on effort and not on results obtained, with low representation of …

Purpose – The study aims to contribute to the training‐related literature by investigating the relationship between … training and training transfer factors and company‐level training outcomes, and the relationship between the latter and company … performance. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose and test a model linking constructs related to training (the volume …

This paper identifies market forces which induce employers to provide training in Ireland. It investigates if they are … to upgrade such jobs. Data from a survey of firms on training incidence, duration, and cost are used in OLS regressions … to investigate the determinants of training at national and sector level. The results show that firm size, the proportion …

perceived training needs of the owner‐managers of the small and medium‐sized hotel establishments in a Turkish tourist town … indicate that the training level of the SMHEs at the managerial level is not satisfactory. This prevents the managers being …

Some evidence of a relationship between training provision and the extent of skills shortages is provided by presenting … Portsmouth area of south Hampshire. By empirically distinguishing between different types of training providers and measuring the …

capacity through spiritual education. Illustrates the sort of spiritual education being conducted in the training programme and …

benchmarking; a second is accreditation to ISO 9000 standards; and a third is Training and rewarding people for quality.  …