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Voluntary or mandatory enrollment in training and the motivation to transfer training
Author(s) -
Curado Carla,
Henriques Paulo Lopes,
Ribeiro Sofia
Publication year - 2015
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/ijtd.12050
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , transfer of training , turnover , psychology , training (meteorology) , transfer (computing) , need for achievement , intrinsic motivation , significant difference , applied psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , management , medicine , economics , statistics , mathematics , physics , meteorology , parallel computing
The purpose of this study is to examine the motivation to transfer training in a multidimensional way. It investigates autonomous and controlled motivation and explores the difference in motivation to transfer according to whether the employee is enrolled in training on a voluntary or mandatory basis. This is a cross‐sectional hypotheses‐testing study. Data were collected at a large insurance company involving employees who had participated in training programs in the previous 6 months. Findings show that when considering autonomous motivation to transfer, results support the argument that being voluntarily enrolled in the training program shows a higher impact on motivation to transfer than being mandatorily enrolled. When considering controlled motivation to transfer, results do not support such an argument, probably because of the nature of controlled motivation to transfer that in practice reduces the difference in results between the two types of enrollment.