| Author: | Lee, Fung-ha Flora |
| Title: | Assessing determinants of training transfer : a study of the influence of trainee characteristics and relapse prevention on computer training effectiveness |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Subject: | Employees -- Training of -- Data processing Occupational training -- Data processing Organizational behavior Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Multi-disciplinary Studies Department of Management |
| Pages: | vi, 117 leaves : ill. ; 31 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | With keen competition and technological advancement, organisations showed more and more emphasis on employees development. In view of the increasing number of training provided to employees, it was essential to know whether training brought about desirable results. The focus of this study was to examine the effects of trainee characteristics and relapse prevention strategy on training effectiveness. 120 participants from a government department attending a two-day computer course were given surveys designed to measure individual trainee differences on age, education, computer experience and computer anxiety. Pretraining motivational factors like internal locus of control, self-efficacy and motivation to learn were also measured. Moreover, a relapse prevention (RP) module was added to that course in order to evaluate the impact on posttraining transfer. Results indicated that among the trainee individual demographic differences, only computer experience has a negative correlation with computer anxiety. Computer anxiety, in turn, has a slight and negative effect on training effectiveness. On the other hand, both internal locus of control and self-efficacy were predictors of motivation to learn. Self-efficacy alone also accounted for a positive correlation with training effectiveness. However, motivation to learn did not has no significant relationship with training effectiveness. Relapse prevention strategy emerged to be the most prominent predictor of training effectiveness. Significant positive correlation was found between relapse prevention strategy and training effectiveness. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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