Transfer of training: an effective tool of knowledge application

Karim Wahba, Niki Kyriakidou and Janet Astley

Global Business and Economics Review, 2021, vol. 25, issue 3/4, 273-291

Abstract: Training alone is not adequate to increase organisational effectiveness, as not all knowledge acquired from the training is implemented correctly in the workplace. To implement training effectiveness, acquired knowledge should be transferred to the workplace. This study intends to understand and describe how expatriate faculty members perceive the supervisor's support behaviours for an effective transfer of training during three stages, (i.e., before, during and after training) in the context of UAE's higher education (HE) sector. A qualitative interpretivist approach was adopted, and the data was generated from 21 expatriate faculty members in three HE institutions through semi-structured interviews. The findings had contributed to the knowledge concerning transfer of training, particularly, in the UAE's HE sector by proposing a framework which for the first time identifies the types of supervisors' supportive behaviours that foster transfer of training among faculty members in each phase of training - thereby increasing the knowledge application and training effectiveness in the UAE private HE sector.

Keywords: transfer of training; supervisor support; expatriate faculty members; UAE; HE sector. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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