Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers

Transfer of training is vital to organizations. This is because organizations invested lots of money for sending their employees to training in order to increase the employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities. From the training they attended, it is crucial for the employees to apply the learned kn...

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Main Author:	Sasikumar, Gengatharan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management Employment
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/1/s822424_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/2/s822424_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/3/s822424_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.91482022-04-13T03:00:34Z Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers 2019 Sasikumar, Gengatharan Yahya, Khulida Kirana School of Business Management School of Business Management HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment Transfer of training is vital to organizations. This is because organizations invested lots of money for sending their employees to training in order to increase the employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities. From the training they attended, it is crucial for the employees to apply the learned knowledge in the workplace. This study examined factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers. The factors involved in this study are individual, training and organizational factors towards transfer of training. The individual factor’s dimensions are self-efficacy, motivation to learn and intent to transfer towards transfer of training. The training factor’s dimensions are perceived content validity and transfer design whereas the organizational factor’s dimensions are supervisor support, peers support and opportunity to use. A total of 293 Administrative and Diplomatic officers in Malaysia participated in this study. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were performed to test the research hypotheses. The result of this findings revealed that individual and organizational factors such as self-efficacy, motivation to learn, supervisor support, peers support and opportunity to use have significant and positive influence on transfer of training. Besides, individual factor and training factors such as intent to transfer, perceived content validity and transfer design did not influence transfer of training. Discussions elaborated on the research findings. Additionally, this study also discussed theoretical and practical implications, limitations of the study, directions for future research, and conclusion. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/1/s822424_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/2/s822424_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/3/s822424_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor	Yahya, Khulida Kirana
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description	Transfer of training is vital to organizations. This is because organizations invested lots of money for sending their employees to training in order to increase the employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities. From the training they attended, it is crucial for the employees to apply the learned knowledge in the workplace. This study examined factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers. The factors involved in this study are individual, training and organizational factors towards transfer of training. The individual factor’s dimensions are self-efficacy, motivation to learn and intent to transfer towards transfer of training. The training factor’s dimensions are perceived content validity and transfer design whereas the organizational factor’s dimensions are supervisor support, peers support and opportunity to use. A total of 293 Administrative and Diplomatic officers in Malaysia participated in this study. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were performed to test the research hypotheses. The result of this findings revealed that individual and organizational factors such as self-efficacy, motivation to learn, supervisor support, peers support and opportunity to use have significant and positive influence on transfer of training. Besides, individual factor and training factors such as intent to transfer, perceived content validity and transfer design did not influence transfer of training. Discussions elaborated on the research findings. Additionally, this study also discussed theoretical and practical implications, limitations of the study, directions for future research, and conclusion.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Sasikumar, Gengatharan
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title	Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers
title_short	Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers
title_full	Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers
title_fullStr	Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers
title_full_unstemmed	Factors influencing transfer of training among Malaysian public sector officers
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granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	School of Business Management
publishDate	2019
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/1/s822424_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/2/s822424_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9148/3/s822424_references.docx
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