Barrenechea-Méndez, Marco A.

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Marco A.

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INARBE. Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics

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    Employee selection, education, and firm-provided training
    (SAGE, 2020) Barrenechea-Méndez, Marco A.; Ortín-Ángel, Pedro; Rodes, Eduardo C.; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa
    Theoretical debate suggests at least three strategies for firms to provide training to employees in the same job position: individualized and egalitarian with or without adaptation to the abilities of the recruited employees. The article provides a formal framework for deriving distinctive empirical implications regarding the relationship of these strategies with the firms' selection policies, which are tested using a dataset of blue-collar workers in Spanish industrial plants. The evidence is consistent with the empirical implications of the egalitarian strategy with adaptation. This strategy entails providing the same level of training to all workers in the same job position and setting this level according to the average ability of recruited workers. Paradoxically, this strategy has not been used to interpret the results of the existing empirical literature.
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    Profit sharing, interconnected autonomous teams, and employee productivity
    (2021) Barrenechea-Méndez, Marco A.; Martínez de Morentin, Sara; Economía; Ekonomia
    Interconnected autonomous teams (IAT) reflect a human resources policy of organizing employees into a network of autonomous teams and allowing individuals to work on more than one of those teams. This paper studies how such a policy influences the productivity effects of profit sharing (PS). We first argue that the presence of IAT could mitigate the 'free rider' problem in each team of the network. Next, using the European Working Conditions Survey, we document a positive relationship between employee productivity and the interaction between PS and IAT. We interpret this result as a confirmation that IAT might indeed alleviate the 'free rider' problem associated with profit sharing schemes.