Organization adjustments, job training and productivity: Evidence from Japanese automobile makers

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This paper considers the demand for job training and its interaction with organization adjustments through rotation within a team and relocation across teams in response to demand and supply shocks. The analysis includes estimations of determinants of on-thejob training, and of how much such training contributes to improvements in individual productivity. We employ original assembler survey data from two Japanese automobile makers. We also investigate effects of the characteristics of workplace practices, including the behavior of foremen, on the incentives for individual assemblers to seek job training and productivity improvements.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 784

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Personnel Economics: Training
• Subject: job training ; productivity improvement ; relocation ; rotation ; workplace practices ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement ; Produktivität ; Kraftfahrzeugindustrie ; Japan

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ariga, Kenn ; Kurosawa, Masako ; Ohtake, Fumio ; Sasaki, Masaru ; Yamane, Shoko
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Osaka
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92736
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET