Employee selection, education, and firm-provided training

Autor: Eduardo C. Rodes, Pedro Ortín-Ángel, Marco A. Barrenechea-Méndez
Přispěvatelé: Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas, Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Enpresen Kudeaketa Saila
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Academica-e: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
Universidad Pública de Navarra
Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
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Popis: Theoretical debate suggests at least three strategies for firms to provide training to employees in the same job position: individualized and egalitarian with or without adaptation to the abilities of the recruited employees. The article provides a formal framework for deriving distinctive empirical implications regarding the relationship of these strategies with the firms' selection policies, which are tested using a dataset of blue-collar workers in Spanish industrial plants. The evidence is consistent with the empirical implications of the egalitarian strategy with adaptation. This strategy entails providing the same level of training to all workers in the same job position and setting this level according to the average ability of recruited workers. Paradoxically, this strategy has not been used to interpret the results of the existing empirical literature. Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (R&D project: ECO 2017-86305-C4-2-R) is gratefully acknowledged.
Databáze: OpenAIRE