TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of employees' and managers' training on the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises
T2 - evidence from a randomized natural experiment in the UK service sector
AU - Georgiadis, Andreas
AU - Pitelis, Christos N.
PY - 2016/5/27
Y1 - 2016/5/27
N2 - We investigate the relationship between employees' and managers' training and firm performance using a policy intervention that randomly assigned training support to small- and medium-sized enterprises in the UK accommodation and food service sector. Because the number of firms self-selected into training exceeded available places, training was randomly assigned to some firms, resulting in a randomized natural experimental design that allowed us to identify the average effect of training on treated firms. Our empirical results suggest that employees' training had a stronger positive impact on firms' labour productivity and profitability than that of managers'.
AB - We investigate the relationship between employees' and managers' training and firm performance using a policy intervention that randomly assigned training support to small- and medium-sized enterprises in the UK accommodation and food service sector. Because the number of firms self-selected into training exceeded available places, training was randomly assigned to some firms, resulting in a randomized natural experimental design that allowed us to identify the average effect of training on treated firms. Our empirical results suggest that employees' training had a stronger positive impact on firms' labour productivity and profitability than that of managers'.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905316781&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12094
U2 - 10.1111/bjir.12094
DO - 10.1111/bjir.12094
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84905316781
SN - 0007-1080
VL - 54
SP - 409
EP - 421
JO - British Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - British Journal of Industrial Relations
IS - 2
ER -