Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261925 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] BRQ Business Research Quarterly [ISSN:] 2340-9436 [Volume:] 25 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Sage Publishing [Place:] London [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 224-242
Publisher: 
Sage Publishing, London
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
selection and education
Training
JEL: 
M53
M54
M21
J24
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by-nc Logo
Document Type: 
Article

Files in This Item:
File
Size
653.83 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.