Orientation Training and Job Satisfaction: A Sector and Gender Analysis
利用英国家庭面板调查数据，发现入职培训能显著提升新员工的工作满意度，但效果因性别和部门而异：男性在公私部门均受益，女性仅在公共部门受益。
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.