The Role of Training and Innovation in Workplace Performance
Staff research paper
The Role of Training and Innovation in Workplace Performance by Patrick Laplagne and Leonie Bensted was released on 16 December 1999. It examines the importance of employee training and workplace innovation in determining both labour productivity levels and growth in Australian workplaces.
The paper uses workplace-level data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS) to examine the extent to which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that it has higher labour productivity than its competitors, and experiences high labour productivity growth.
The paper is part of ongoing research undertaken by the Productivity Commission on changes in the nature of work and on the determinants of productivity. Also see:
Related publications include:
- Productivity and the Structure of Employment
- The New Economy? A New Look at Australia's Productivity Performance
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Acknowledgements, Contents, Key Points
1 Introduction
2 Recent trends in training, innovation and productivity
2.1 Innovation
2.2 Training
2.3 Workplace productivity
2.4 Empirical literature on the links between training, innovation and labour productivity
Training and labour productivity
Innovation and labour productivity
3 A framework for examining workplace productivity
3.1 Workplace productivity (levels)
Average labour quality
Average capital quality
Interaction of labour and capital quality
3.2 Productivity growth
Productivity growth of less efficient workplaces
3.3 Summary
4 AWIRS data
4.1 Measures of labour productivity levels and growth
4.2 Measures of training
4.3 Measures of innovation
5 Empirical results
5.1 Bivariate analysis
5.2 Multivariate analysis
The ordered probit model
Labour productivity levels
Labour productivity growth
Leading and lagging workplaces
Combined effects of training and innovation
Productivity growth models using panel data
6 Conclusion
A Probit models
B Description of variables
References
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