Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004

Melanie K. Jones (), Richard Jones, Paul L. Latreille () and Peter Sloane
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Melanie K. Jones: Cardiff University
Paul L. Latreille: University of Sheffield

No 3677, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While there is clear evidence that training is positively associated with job satisfaction, and job satisfaction in turn is positively associated with most measures of performance, the relationship between training and performance is complex, depending on both the particular measures of training and of performance used in the analysis.

Keywords: financial performance; quits; absence; job satisfaction; training; labour market; product quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J0 J2 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2008-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eec, nep-eff, nep-hap, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 139 - 175

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