Training-related motivation and transfer outcomes: the role of proactive transfer behaviour and positive psychological states
Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: [Truncated abstract] For training to be effective it must be applied on the job. However, transfer of training to the workplace is regularly not sufficiently realised. As a result, individuals and organisations may not reach their performance potential, and this also questions the rationale for investing costly resources into professional development activities. Training transfer is a function of a system of influences, of which research identified only a few as consistent predictors. Most of these act through the person being trained. The present research seeks to understand why some people are more likely to transfer training than others by investigating individual-level factors that can influence whether what gets learned in training is applied at work. This doctoral thesis is anchored in a goal regulatory framework and examines the influence of three inter-related psychological processes on the transfer of training. Specifically, it is argued that (1) positive cognitive states relating to work determine (2) transfer motivation, which in turn influences (3) proactive transfer behaviour, and training transfer.
Author: Ramon Wenzel
Institution: The University of Western Australia
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1902917342