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Training and organisational performance: A meta‐analysis of temporal, institutional and organisational context moderators
Author(s) -
Garavan Thomas,
McCarthy Alma,
Lai Yanqing,
Murphy Kevin,
Sheehan Maura,
Carbery Ronan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
human resource management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.44
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1748-8583
pISSN - 0954-5395
DOI - 10.1111/1748-8583.12284
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , meta analysis , quality (philosophy) , psychology , training (meteorology) , business , knowledge management , marketing , computer science , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , meteorology , biology
Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta‐analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of training, time, institutional and organisational context factors in the relationship between training and organisational performance. Our findings reveal that training is positively and directly related to organisational performance with no statistically significant difference between measures of training quality and quantity. We found that the relationship was stronger over time and that country performance orientation and country labour cost moderate the training and organisational performance relationship. We found no evidence for the moderating effects of the three organisational context moderators we examined (i.e. industry sector, organisational size and technology intensity). Finally, our results reveal that training type (i.e. general or firm‐specific) does not moderate the training and organisational performance relationship.