Workplace Learning, Financial Support, and Organizational Commitment of Non-Regular Employees

What is it about?

This study empirically examines the effect of ‘participation in institutionalized formal training and institutionalized informal-relational learning’, as formalized workplace learning, and ‘financial support for learning of business organizations’ on ‘organizational commitment’ of non-regular employees. Using the 2009 Human Capital Corporate Panel collected by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training, surveys of 205 non-regular employees from 85 companies were analyzed. Liner-regression modeling analysis revealed that non-regular employees’participatory experiences in institutionalized informal-relational learning improved their organizational commitment. However, their participation in institutionalized non-formal training and employer’s financial support for learning had no effect on organizational commitment. The participatory experience in institutionalized informal-relational learning of non-regular employees had stronger impacts on organizational commitment relatively.

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Why is it important?

The results highlight the importance of workplace learning through social relationships for organizational commitment of non-regular employees. These findings also suggest the need for critical reflection on existing training-centered approaches to the workplace learning of non-regular employees.