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Job/Work Environment Factors Influencing Training Transfer within a Human Service Agency: Some Indicative Support for Baldwin and Ford's Transfer Climate Construct.
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Clarke, Nicholas – International Journal of Training and Development, 2002
Interviews 6 months after 14 social services employees participated in inservice training identified job and work environment factors that impede transfer of training: short duration, lack of time and opportunity to practice, minimal supervisor support, and the perception that such training was more for personal development than application to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Services, Inservice Education, Organizational Climate
Approaches to Learning at Work and Workplace Climate.
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Kirby, John R.; Knapper, Christopher K.; Evans, Christina J.; Carty, Allan E.; Gadula, Carla – International Journal of Training and Development, 2003
Studies 1 and 2 explored the factor structure of the Approaches to Work Questionnaire (AWQ) and Workplace Climate Questionnaire (n=305, n=172). Study 3 tested scales and structure of the revised AWQ, identifying three factors: deep, surface-rational, and surface-disorganized workplace learning. Workplace Climate Questionnaire components were good…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
The Impact of Organisational Structure and Practices on Learning in the Workplace
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Ashton, David N. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2004
The main thrust of the research effort into workplace learning has been to identify the characteristics of workplace learning as experienced by the learner. The impact of the wider organisational process in which that learning is embedded have been played down. This paper, building on the work of Koike and Darrah, uses research conducted in a…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Organizational Climate
What Predicts Skill Transfer? An Exploratory Study of Goal Orientation, Training Self-Efficacy and Organizational Supports
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Chiaburu, Dan S.; Marinova, Sophia V. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2005
Results from a study examining the predictors of skill transfer from an instructional to a work environment are presented. Prior research indicates that skill transfer is a function of both individual and contextual factors. A total of 186 employees from a work organization were surveyed on individual dimensions (goal orientation, training…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Motivation