Education, informal learning and development of key competencies in workplaces : the importance of organizational design

摘要: The objective of the study is to test hypothesis that growth in a worker’s competency level affected by number educational, training and workplace features. focus on expressed competencies. Our findings show strong statistical significance five variables corcerning organizational nature workplaces, whereby employees: (i) have participated improvement groups; (ii) submitted suggestions; (iii) been interviewed for performance evaluation purposes; (iv) receive constant information flows; (v) are involved consulted organization. cross-sectional estimates raises typical questions concerning: (a) endogeneity some variables; (b) problem selection bias with respect certain and, lastly, (c) heterogeneity issue. These problems addressed using following procedures: (1) introduction related personality traits capture individual fixed effects variables, as well use two-stage procedure (TSLS) control employee tenure; (2) White method robust standard error residuals. issue examined argumentative form, there was no database would make it possible deal econometric form. However, relevance borne out outcome. policy recommendations can be derived include implementation of: (A) employee-management agreements redesign workplaces accordance study; (B) public policies designed encourage re-engineering line processes under way main countries Central Northern Europe.