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 propose to implement and evaluate a soft-skills training program among mid- and upper-level managers in textile factories in India. The goal of the intervention and evaluation is to investigate constraints to firm performance due to managerial human capital, and to contribute to the understanding of how improved management can translate into better working conditions for workers. We will evaluate this program through a multi-step randomized controlled trial in 41 factories operated by a large textile firm based in Bangalore, India. The trials will take place in 41 factories among about 1500 upper-level managers and 4000 supervisors overseeing around 70,000 workers. The intervention for front-line supervisors will be randomly phased in across two phases of supervisors within each factory, with saturation of phase 1 trained supervisors randomly varied across production floors to capture spillovers. The upper-management training intervention will be cross-cutting and randomly phased in across 2 phases at the factory level to be able to capture direct effects of both levels of training as well as interactive impacts. Measurement is based on hourly productivity data from computer-based production monitoring systems, attendance and retention from biometric-based personnel records and measures of attitudes, perceptions and incidences of abuse and harassment from several rounds of surveys.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links 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 do soft skills among floor and management staff impact the productivity of firms and the retention of their employees? 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 Two soft skills training programs in garment factories, with the goal of improving soft skills and increasing productivity and retention, will be offered to production line supervisors and upper-level managers. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Management, productivity, attention, retention, workplace environment</p> Results <p>Pending</p> Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Adhvaryu, A., Nyshadham, A. (forthcoming). 'Impacts of Soft Skills Management Training on Productivity and Worker Retention and Welfare'. Ongoing research. Citation for use in academic references
