Translating training science into practice: A study of managers' reactions to posttraining transfer interventions
✍ Scribed by Philip Huint; Alan M. Saks
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1044-8004
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate managers' reactions to two posttraining transfer interventions
(relapse prevention and supervisor support training) and two types of information about their
effectiveness (utility analysis and research information). One hundred seventy‐four managers and
students received one of four scenarios and were then asked if they would adopt the intervention as part of a
training program to increase the productivity of clerical‐administrative staff. The results indicated no
significant differences between the posttraining transfer interventions or information conditions, although there
was a trend in favor of the supervisor support intervention; also, the utility analysis information was not as
well received as the research information. In general, managers did not indicate a high acceptance of either the
relapse prevention or the supervisor support intervention. The results are discussed in terms of the willingness of
managers to adopt training research innovations and the implications for HRD
research‐to‐practice.