The Effectiveness of a Private Human Resource Development Centre’s Outdoor Training Programme on Teamwork
The objective of this study was to determine the level of teamwork gained in clarity of goals, communication, leadership, trust, conflict management, empowerment, decision making, relationship and overall teamwork. The relationship between participants’ perception towards training content, traini...
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| Language: | English English |
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/314/1/549547_T_FPP_2004_8.pdf |
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| Summary: | The objective of this study was to determine the level of teamwork gained in clarity
of goals, communication, leadership, trust, conflict management, empowerment,
decision making, relationship and overall teamwork. The relationship between
participants’ perception towards training content, training methodology, the
instructor’s delivery, the overall perception on teamwork gained was also
determined. A pre and post-test survey type questionnaire was self-administrated.
There were 28 participants who had gone through Banseke’s outdoor training
programme participated in pilot test. A total of 64 participants who attended the
course from 25-30 October 2002 participated in this study. Teamwork assessment
questionnaire was adopted and adapted from Stott & Walker (1995) to determine
participants’ teamwork level. Responses were analysed using SPSS. Measures of
Central Tendency, Standard Deviation and frequency were used for descriptive
analysis, while Paired Sample t-test was used to determine the differences of
teamwork level before and after the training programme. Pearson Correlation
Coefficient was used to determine the relationship of the variables.
The results revealed that participants have high perception towards training
content, training methodology and the instructor’s delivery. The study also found
that there was significant increment for teamwork and its elements like clarity of
goals, communication, leadership, conflict management, empowerment and decision
making, but not for trust and relationship. Correlation coefficient results revealed
that there was no significant relationship between training content and eight
elements constituted of teamwork. Training methodology has significantly low
relationship with communication (r = 0.279) and leadership (r = 0.253), but no for
the other six elements. Instructor’s delivery also has significantly low relationship
with communication (r = 0.314) and leadership (r = 0.316), but no for the other six
elements. There was no significant relationship between participants’ perception
towards training content, training methodology and instructor’s delivery with
teamwork. However, the overall perception of the outdoor training has significantly
low relationship with teamwork (r = 0.260). The overall perception also has
significantly low relationship with communication (r = 0.321) and leadership (r =
0.272). Therefore, high level of participants’ perception towards training content,
training methodology and the instructor’s delivery were not necessarily the cause of
teamwork gained. Banseke is an effective outdoor training programme in improving
participants’ overall teamwork level. |
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