... in the difficulty and number of tasks to which employees need to cope. Findings Cooperation and sharing of competence and ability are key to cognitive plasticity. Being able to master the use of some resources, together with other employees’ competencies, make some achieve the most efficient task performance...

...Anika Jansen; Harald Ulrich Pfeifer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between pre-training competencies of apprentices and their productivity at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach For the analysis, the authors use firm-level data on apprentices’ oral...