Exploration of Human Resource Challenges Faced by the Teachers in Transferring Training
Keywords:
Training and Development Transfer of Training, Opportunity to Apply, Resistant to Change, Job Involvement.
Abstract
Organizations hope that their employees are able to learn and acquire new knowledge and skills in the events of training and effectively transferring it back to the workforce, but it is deteriorating day by day. This paper explores challenges faced by trainees in transferring training through focus group interviews. Content analysis was the procedures and techniques employed to analyze the gathered data. The findings uncover and highlighted some major challenges that hinder employees to properly transfer what they might have learned in the training session on their jobs. The ability of the management to overcome those challenges would drive workers to be them to be desirous in making persistent and intense efforts towards utilizing skills and knowledge learned in the work settings. Human resource trainers need to overcome the identified challenges on employees’ training transfer in the organization.
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Chowdhury, M. S. (2007). Enhancing motivation and work performance of the sales people: The impact of supervisors’ behavior.African Journal of Business Management, 1(12), 238–243.
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Donovan, P., Hannigan, K., & Crowe, D. (2001). The Learning transfer system approach to estimating the benefits of training: Emperical evidence. Journal of European Development, 79(3), 376–384.
Elloy, D. F., Everette, J. E., & Flynn, W. R. (1995). Multidimensional mapping of the correlatesof job involvement work–related scales used in studies of job involvement. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science,27(1), 79–87.
Facteau, J. D., Dobbins, G. H., Russell, J. E. A., Ladd, R. T, & Kudisch, J. D. (1995). The influenceof general perceptions of the training environment on pretraining motivation and perceived training transfer. Journal of Management, 21(1), 1–25.
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Foxon, M. (1997). The influence of motivation to transfer, action planning, and manager support on the transfer process. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 10(2), 42–63.
Gill, J., & Johnson, P. (1991). Research methods for managers. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd.
Hafer, J. C., & Martin, T. N. (2006). Job involvement or affective commitment: A sensitivity analysis study of apathetic employee mobility. Behavioural and Applied Management, 1(12), 2–19.
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Hussain, R. M. (2010). An empirical study of the relationship between motivation to transfer and transfer of training. Far East Journal of Psychology and Business, 5(1), 47–56.
Jessica, C. (2010). Best practices for youth employment programs: A synthesis of current research what works. Research to Practice Series 9(4), 20–35.
Madi, M., Abdullah, B., Ismail, A., Baroto, M. B. (2012). Supervisor’s role in training programs as a predictor of motivation to learn : A study in a Malaysian public sector. 2nd International Conference on Business and Economic Research Proceeding, 1(1), 1371-1380.
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Romanova, G., Maznichenko, M., &Neskoromnyh, N. (2016). Systematic Approach to the Goalsetting of Higher Education in the Field of Tourism and Hospitality. European Journal of Contemporary Education, 17(3), 344-356.
Suleiman, W. (2013). A study of causes of poor attitude to work among workers of both public and private sectors organizations in Bauchi state–Nigeria. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 3(7), 143–152. doi:10.6007 / IJARBSS/v3–i7/16
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Tsvetkova, M. I. (2016). The Shadows of Reading: Reasons for the Bad Results of Bulgarians in PISA Studies. European Journal of Contemporary Education, 17(3), 368-377.
Tziner, A., Fisher, M., Senior, T., Weisberg, J., & Street, G. (2007). Effects of trainee characteristics on training effectiveness. Interdiscipilinary Journal of Selection and Assessment, 15(2) 34–45.
Van der locht, M., van Dam, K., & Chiaburu, D. S. (2013). Getting the most of management training: the role of identical elements for training transfer. Personnel Review, 42(4), 422–439. doi:10.1108/PR–05–2011–0072
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2017-09-15
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Suleiman, W., Adamu, M., & Inuwa, M. (2017). Exploration of Human Resource Challenges Faced by the Teachers in Transferring Training. International Journal of Business and Management Future, 1(1), 16-31. https://doi.org/10.46281/ijbmf.v1i1.111
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