The Influence of Education and Training on Work Attitudes and the Moderating Effect of Supervisor Attitudes: Examining Chinese Employees

Huei-Mei Liang (), Rui-Hsin Kao (), Chung-Cheng Tu (), Chang-Chiang Chin () and Wu-Chung Chung ()

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2014, vol. 119, issue 2, 853-875

Abstract: Human capital is a source of competitive advantage for organizations, in which education and training play important roles in the process of increasing the quality and quantity of human capital. Specifically, large-scale multinationals use systemized, structured methods to establish education and training systems. By studying the employees in a major food company in China, this paper is to investigate the influence of education and training on employees’ work attitudes and the moderating effect of supervisors’ attitudes. It is found that education and training have a positive influence on employees’ work attitudes. Among the training courses, the training of managerial ability has the most significant influence, followed by self-development courses. In addition, supervisors’ attitudes toward employees receiving managerial ability training, during and after the training, clearly have a positive moderating effect on employees’ overall work attitudes. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Human capital; Supervisor attitudes; Chinese; Work attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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