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Effects of Trainee Characteristics on Training Effectiveness
Author(s) -
Tziner Aharon,
Fisher Michal,
Senior Tami,
Weisberg Jacob
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2389.2007.00378.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conscientiousness , training (meteorology) , supervisor , variance (accounting) , applied psychology , goal orientation , transfer of training , orientation (vector space) , personality , social psychology , big five personality traits , cognitive psychology , management , accounting , physics , business , geometry , mathematics , meteorology , economics , extraversion and introversion
Six employee characteristics (conscientiousness, self‐efficacy, motivation to learn, learning goal orientation, performance goal orientation, instrumentality) and one work environment characteristic (transfer of training climate) were captured for 130 trainees in a large industrial company in an attempt to predict training effectiveness (training grade, supervisor evaluation of the application of training). The results strongly support the predicted links, although not all the predictor variables contributed a statistically significant share of the explained variance of the training outcomes. Motivation to learn and learning goal orientation were found to contribute most to predicting training outcomes. The implications of the results are discussed and the limitations of the study are noted, along with suggested avenues for future research.