Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions
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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions. / Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip et al.
In: Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2013, p. 270-288.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions
AU - Pfeifer, Christian
AU - Janssen, Simon
AU - Yang, Philip
AU - Backes-Gellner, Uschi
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions forproductivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main finding is that workers have larger probabilities to make suggestions and to be promoted after they have received formal training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but also seem to be affected in the long term.
AB - We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions forproductivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main finding is that workers have larger probabilities to make suggestions and to be promoted after they have received formal training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but also seem to be affected in the long term.
KW - Economics
KW - human capital
KW - insider econometrics
KW - productivity
KW - promotions
KW - training
U2 - 10.1007/BF03396858
DO - 10.1007/BF03396858
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 65
SP - 270
EP - 288
JO - Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBuR)
JF - Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBuR)
SN - 0341-2687
IS - 3
ER -