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Strategic alignment of training, transfer‐enhancing behaviors, and training usage: A posttraining study
Author(s) -
Montesino Max U.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.1015
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , psychology , medical education , business , test (biology) , marketing , applied psychology , medicine , paleontology , physics , meteorology , biology
This survey explored the alignment of an organization's specific training program with its strategicdirection and its practices to support usage of training on the job. The subjects, trainees and their immediatesupervisors, were participants in a targeted sales training program of a Fortune 200 pharmaceutical companyheadquartered in the Midwest. This study found a low to moderate positive correlation between the perceivedalignment of training with the strategic direction of the organization and the presence of practices to supportusage of training. The group of trainees that self‐reported very high usage of training perceived asignificantly higher alignment of the training program with the strategic direction of the organization ascompared to the group of trainees that self‐reported low to high usage of training; field managersdid not differ significantly in that regard. Trainees who self‐reported very high usage of training alsoreported a significantly higher presence of practices to support usage of training throughout the program thanthe group of trainees that self‐reported low to high usage of training; field managers did notdiffer significantly in that regard either. The study found a positive correlation between awareness of andcommitment to the strategic direction of the organization.