The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness

Training is a vital contributor to employees’ and organizational success. Many organizations have invested large amounts of money to provide training, but few have examined the effectiveness of training programs. Based on literature reviewed, there is limited research conducted on the moderating eff...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yip, Foon Yee
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	HD28 Management Industrial Management
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79003/2/YipFoonYeePFM2016.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-utm-ep.79003
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-utm-ep.790032018-09-19T05:22:51Z The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness 2016 Yip, Foon Yee HD28 Management. Industrial Management Training is a vital contributor to employees’ and organizational success. Many organizations have invested large amounts of money to provide training, but few have examined the effectiveness of training programs. Based on literature reviewed, there is limited research conducted on the moderating effect of transfer climate on training effectiveness. This study investigated the moderating effect of transfer climate on the relationship between trainees' personality and training effectiveness. The respondents were one hundred and eighty-three police officers who participated in the selection of a driving training program offered by Maktab Teknik Polis Diraja Malaysia, Muar. Three sets of questionnaires comprising Big Five Personality inventory, transfer climate scale and training effectiveness (driving knowledge test and driving competency) were distributed to the respondents during pre-training, post-training and after two months of training. The data were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 19.0 and SmartPLS 3.0. The findings showed that two of the personality traits, extraversion and neuroticism were significantly related to driving knowledge which is one of the training effectiveness variables. On the other hand, three personality constructs i.e, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience were significantly related to driving competency which is a training effectiveness variable. For the moderation effect of the transfer climate, only one variable opportunity to use, had negatively moderated the relationship between trainees’ personality such as conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience with driving competency. The findings of the present study would allow practitioners to understand different personality traits that have a maximum impact on training transfer under certain transfer climates. Besides that, the research explored and discovered ‘opportunity to use’ as potential moderator in the training effectiveness research. 2016 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79003/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79003/2/YipFoonYeePFM2016.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:106301 phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Management Faculty of Management
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection	UTM Institutional Repository
language	English
topic	HD28 Management Industrial Management
spellingShingle	HD28 Management Industrial Management Yip, Foon Yee The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
description	Training is a vital contributor to employees’ and organizational success. Many organizations have invested large amounts of money to provide training, but few have examined the effectiveness of training programs. Based on literature reviewed, there is limited research conducted on the moderating effect of transfer climate on training effectiveness. This study investigated the moderating effect of transfer climate on the relationship between trainees' personality and training effectiveness. The respondents were one hundred and eighty-three police officers who participated in the selection of a driving training program offered by Maktab Teknik Polis Diraja Malaysia, Muar. Three sets of questionnaires comprising Big Five Personality inventory, transfer climate scale and training effectiveness (driving knowledge test and driving competency) were distributed to the respondents during pre-training, post-training and after two months of training. The data were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 19.0 and SmartPLS 3.0. The findings showed that two of the personality traits, extraversion and neuroticism were significantly related to driving knowledge which is one of the training effectiveness variables. On the other hand, three personality constructs i.e, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience were significantly related to driving competency which is a training effectiveness variable. For the moderation effect of the transfer climate, only one variable opportunity to use, had negatively moderated the relationship between trainees’ personality such as conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience with driving competency. The findings of the present study would allow practitioners to understand different personality traits that have a maximum impact on training transfer under certain transfer climates. Besides that, the research explored and discovered ‘opportunity to use’ as potential moderator in the training effectiveness research.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Yip, Foon Yee
author_facet	Yip, Foon Yee
author_sort	Yip, Foon Yee
title	The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
title_short	The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
title_full	The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
title_fullStr	The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
title_full_unstemmed	The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
title_sort	moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Management
granting_department	Faculty of Management
publishDate	2016
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79003/2/YipFoonYeePFM2016.pdf
_version_	1747818124279808000

The moderating effect of transfer climate on relationship between trainees personality and training effectiveness

Similar Items