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The Impact of Middle Manager Training on Productivity: A Test on Italian Companies
Author(s) -
Feltrinelli Elena,
Gabriele Roberto,
Trento Sandro
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12174
Subject(s) - productivity , panel data , training (meteorology) , middle management , test (biology) , business , selection (genetic algorithm) , demographic economics , industrial organization , econometrics , economics , marketing , computer science , economic growth , artificial intelligence , paleontology , physics , meteorology , biology
This paper presents panel evidence on the productivity effects of middle managers’ off‐the‐job formal training in Italy. It is based on a rich and reliable panel dataset covering all sectors of the Italian economy over the period 2006–2011. We employ panel data techniques and self‐selection models to show that off‐the‐job formal training for middle management has a significant nonlinear exogenous effect on total factor productivity. Moreover, results indicate that middle managers’ off‐the‐job formal training is more effective in larger firms and that different training methods have heterogeneous effects on productivity.