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Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance
Author(s) -
Haile Getinet Astatike
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12327
Subject(s) - workforce , accreditation , business , training (meteorology) , public sector , private sector , workforce planning , perception , matching (statistics) , public relations , marketing , labour economics , accounting , economic growth , political science , psychology , economics , economy , medicine , physics , pathology , neuroscience , meteorology
The paper examines if the ‘Investors in People’ (IiP) organisational accreditation scheme promoted worker training and organisational performance in Britain using a panel of organisations. DID matching estimators relating to both employee‐ and employer‐assessed training outcomes revealed that IiP status promoted workforce training, but only for private sector organisations. Conversely, losing the status was not found to have a significant training link. On organisational performance, the estimates revealed that gaining (losing) the status had a significant positive (negative) link with managers' perceptions of organisational performance in both sectors. Public sector organisations are reported to have a relative strength in workforce training, which appears to explain the lack of significant training link. The sector may thus require a different scheme to promote workforce training further.