(1) General training. The set of knowledge transmitted has a productive value in
many different firms, given its general nature. If it is feasible to be applied in
many different firms, there is a problem of controlling the benefit (e.g. seller
communication strategies in retail stores, training on marketable software
packages).
(2) Specific training. The set of knowledge transmitted is relevant only to the firm,
because it is specific to the organization, that is, “it is valuable only when the
worker is employed in a particular firm” (Stevens, 1999, p. 19) (e.g. training on
information systems developed by the firm itself).
(3) Transferable training. The set of knowledge that is of “value in more than one
firm and there is competition between firms to employ the worker, but
competition is not sufficiently fierce that the wage is driven up to the marginal
product” (Stevens, 1999, p. 19). Here, there is also the problem of benefit control