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- Title
Training and organisational innovations in a local industrial system: empirical evidence from Emilia-Romagna.
- Authors
Guidetti, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano
- Abstract
The article studies the driving forces of firm training using a survey-based dataset of manufacturing firms in the Emilia-Romagna region, Northern Italy. The data are derived from the responses to a structured questionnaire administered in 2002 to the management of a representative sample of firms with more than 50 employees in the highly industrialised province of Reggio Emilia. Firms’ training choices are analysed using a theoretical/conceptual framework based on the notion of complementarity among productive factors. Training is provided as long as it favours the establishment of complementary relationships among the skills it develops and other inputs. The main factors associated with training include structural characteristics, HRM practices, workforce features, labour management and performance of the firm. Training activities emerge as being positively associated with organisational practices that affect the whole firm: workforce skill level, firm size, firm productivity and labour flexibility. The role of HRM practices in driving training is brought into question. These are key issues for the current debate on the development of local systems in the European and Italian context. The high and joint relevance of structural variables and labour demand-related factors shows that regional industrial policies must support labour policies within an integrated policy effort aimed at increasing potential firm productivity.
- Subjects
EMILIA-Romagna (Italy); ITALY; LABOR productivity; EMPLOYEE training; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; MANUFACTURING industries personnel; LABOR economics; INDUSTRIAL organization (Economic theory); INDUSTRIAL psychology; PERSONNEL management; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Human Resource Management Journal, 2007, Vol 17, Issue 3, p283
- ISSN
0954-5395
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-8583.2007.00045.x