What is it about?
This study suggests that personal characteristic (conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness) and workplace support (organizational support, supervisor support, and co-worker support) could elevate trainees' motivation to acquire new learning for the sake of improving work, leading to enhancement in the trainees' ability to apply their new learning on the job.
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Why is it important?
To the best of the authors' knowledge, to date, very few or no known empirical studies that attempt to examine the higher-order construct of Motivation to Improve Work through Learning (MTIWL) as a plausible mediator linking the effects of personal characteristics and workplace support on trainees' ability to apply training on the job. This study, therefore, addresses such shortcoming in the transfer literature.
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Although substantial studies found motivation to learn and motivation to transfer as mediators linking the effects of trainee characteristics, training design, and work environment on training transfer, little is known about the role of the higher-order construct of MTIWL on such relationships. Also, little is known about its predictive power on transfer in comparison to motivation to learn and motivation to transfer. We hope more empirical research can be conducted to address the issues.
Kueh Hua Ng
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This page is a summary of: Personality traits, social support, and training transfer, Personnel Review, February 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/pr-08-2016-0210.
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