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 Evaluation of a training and consulting program for managerial staff in Bangladeshi garment factories to understand how new management practices are adopted and implemented and what determines their success. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Lack of managerial capital remains one of the core challenges to SME growth in developing countries. However, rigorous evidence on the impact of programs focused on improving managerial skills is limited. This study evaluates a program which offers training and consulting for managerial staff in garment factories. It focuses on understanding how new management practices are adopted and implemented and what determines their success. The study will measure the impact of the training and consulting on output, productivity and other important outcomes of the factories.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links http://www.poverty-action.org/project/1055 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 Can training and consulting help SMEs overcome the lack of knowledge and skills and lead to improvements in productivity? How are new management practices adopted and what determines their success? Sample Trial population and sample selection Approximately 120 production lines in 2 Bangladeshi factories. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Not available Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The programme is a combination of classroom teaching to a variety of factory mid-level managers from the production, human resources, and planning departments and “activations” during which the material presented in the training is adapted and implemented in the factory. The programme spans a broad range of production-related activities, and also focuses on introducing a culture of recording and monitoring into the factory. In each factory, two production lines from an eligible set will be randomly chosen to pilot all of the twenty to forty activations expected to be implemented over the course of a year. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Not available. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Output, productivity, worker absenteeism, adoption of new practices.</p> Results <p>Not yet available.</p> Intervention costs Not available. Cost benefit ratio Reference Akerlof, R., Macchiavello, R., & Woodruff, C., 2015. 'Training and Consulting Services for Managers: Experimental Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Production Lines'. Innovations for Poverty Action - Project Registry. Citation for use in academic references
