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Orientation training and job satisfaction : A sector and gender analysis
Tabvuma, Vurain Georgellis, Yannis Lange, Thomas
Tabvuma, Vurain
Georgellis, Yannis
Lange, Thomas
Abstract
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we investigate how various types of job training impact upon employees’ job satisfaction and its domains. We find that orientation training exerts a significant positive effect on newcomer male employees’ job satisfaction in both the private and public sectors, but it increases the job satisfaction of newcomer female employees only in the public sector. Other types of job training have only a weak effect on job satisfaction. We attribute the predominance of orientation training as a strong predictor of job satisfaction to its important function of facilitating the workplace socialization of new employees by reducing the uncertainty about aspects of the job that are not always easily contractible. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Keywords
job training, orientation training, organizational socialization, job satisfaction
Date
2015
Type
Journal article
Journal
Human Resource Management
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Volume
54
Issue
2
Page Range
303-321
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ACU Department
Faculty of Law and Business
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Published as green open access
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Open
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Controlled