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>We investigate the relationship between employees' and managers' training and firm performance using a policy intervention that randomly assigned training support to small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in the UK accommodation and food service sector. Because the number of firms self‐selected into training exceeded available places, training was randomly assigned to some firms, resulting in a randomized natural experimental design that allowed us to identify the average effect of training on treated firms. Our empirical results suggest that employees' training had a stronger positive impact on firms' labour productivity and profitability than that of managers'.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12094 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 How does training for managerial and non-managerial staff impact firm productivity? Sample Trial population and sample selection SMEs in UK hospitality sector. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The study tested the effects on firm productivity of training given to managers and non-managerial employees. The training for managers focused on general managerial skills, while the training for non-managerial staff focused on general skills aiming to increase productivity. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collected from British Hospitality Association database. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Key financial and other performance indicators, such as sales revenue, total expenditure and advertising expenditures of the last completed financial year, and on factors determining<br /> business performance. </p> Results <p>Non-managerial employees’ training had a large positive impact on labour productivity and profitability, but there was a weak or no effect of managerial and human resource training services on firm performance.</p> Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Georgiadis, A., Pitelis, C. (2014). 'The Impact of Employees’ and Managers’ Training on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in the UK Service Sector'. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Citation for use in academic references
