Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Effective workplace management plays a crucial role in determining employee performance, retention, and subsequently, overall firm performance. While conventional management strategies often emphasize hierarchical relationships, peer-to-peer management, or "managing across," represents a promising yet largely unexplored approach. This study aims to investigate the impact of peer-to-peer management training on various employee outcomes and identify the conditions under which the intervention proves most effective.</p> <p>The primary research questions are the following: 1) Can peer-to-peer management training enhance collaboration and improve relationships among co-workers in the same workplace? 2) What effects does peer-to-peer management training have on employee performance, retention, and team dynamics? 3) Under what circumstances and for which employees is the training most impactful?</p> <p>To address these questions, we plan to conduct a randomized controlled trial involving approximately 3,500 workers across around 100 stores of a multinational spa chain. The stores will be randomly allocated into two groups, with one group receiving peer-to-peer management training and the other serving as a control group. The peer-to-peer management training is particularly designed to equip employees with the necessary skills to effectively manage their peer relationships, promoting cooperative teamwork, efficient conflict resolution, and mutual support. The training materials will be delivered online via the firm's e-learning portal.</p> <p>By combining survey data collected before and after the training with administrative data on worker collaboration, performance, and retention, we will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the training intervention. The insights derived from this study will make a significant contribution to our understanding of peer management practices and their influence on both employee outcomes and firm performance.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/11855 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
