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Designing Training Interventions: Human or Technical Skills Training?
Author(s) -
Petridou Eugenia N,
Spathis Charalambos T
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of training and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1468-2419
pISSN - 1360-3736
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2419.00131
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , human resources , human resource management , psychology , psychological intervention , applied psychology , logistic regression , medical education , private sector , training and development , knowledge management , computer science , management , medicine , political science , physics , machine learning , psychiatry , meteorology , law , economics
Training is seen as the key instrument in the implementation of Human Resource Management policies and practices in both the private and public sector. The choice of the type of training, focused on human or technical skills, is crucial in designing the training process. This field study investigates the personal and occupational characteristics of 444 public managers, candidates for human and technical skills training. A classification model is proposed which allows the selection and weighting of the candidate trainees' personal and occupational differences in order to participate in one of the two types of training. By means of the stepwise logistic regression method, gender, age, education, attitudes towards training, managerial level and job tenure have been identified as the significant variables associated with type of training.