The Influence of Training Reputation, Managerial Support, and Self-Efficacy on Pre-Training Motivation and Perceived Training Transfer.

Abstract

Perceptions of training program reputation remain relatively under-represented in the training literature (e.g., Facteau, Dobbins, Russell, Ladd, & Kudisch, 1995). The present study seeks to extend previous findings by examining the effects of perceived training reputation, managerial support and self-efficacy on pre-training motivation and likely transfer of training in a private training curriculum. Self-report questionnaires sent to 93 manager trainees assessed the key constructs. Our findings suggest that perceived training reputation may be tied more directly to perceptions of training transfer (r = .46) than was originally believed. Moreover, our findings suggest that pre-training motivation may not be as predictive of training transfer as previously believed (r = .27), and that pre-training motivation does not mediate the relationship between training reputation and perceived training transfer when partialling out the influences of pre-training motivation, as the obtained partial correlation (r = .39) remained significant. Limitations and suggestions for future research are noted. __________________________________________________________________________________