The Impact of Employees' and Managers' Training on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in the UK Service Sector

Georgiadis, A; Pitelis, CN

The Impact of Employees' and Managers' Training on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in the UK Service Sector

Georgiadis, A Pitelis, CN

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2016, 54 (2), pp. 409 - 421
Issue Date:: 2016-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Georgiadis, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pitelis, CN	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:20:02Z
dc.date.issued	2016-06-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2016, 54 (2), pp. 409 - 421	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0007-1080	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/49222
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and London School of Economics. 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'. Copyright	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	British Journal of Industrial Relations	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/bjir.12094	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Industrial Relations	en_US
dc.title	The Impact of Employees' and Managers' Training on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in the UK Service Sector	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	1402 Applied Economics	en_US
utslib.for	1608 Sociology	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and London School of Economics. 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'. Copyright

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