Studying the Status of Transfer of Training to Workplace: Case Study

Abstract

In today's workplaces, if the workers need to accomplish their career tasks, they required to continually promote their knowledge and skills. Hence, the leaders of organisations always search for applying the most effective educational strategies in order to guarantee maximum performance and profitability. In general, the ultimate goal of training for the learners is to transfer what they have learned during a training period to the actual world. The present study has dealt with studying the transfer of knowledge gained by training courses to the workplace. The study is a mixture of both qualitative and quantitative methods application wise and methodologically. This plan was made using two survey and interview methods. The statistical society contains all employees and heads participating in the training courses of municipality of district Two of Tehran between years 2008 and 2011 and the statistical sample included 282 persons selected by the simple random sampling method. The tools for gathering data of questionnaire and interview have been semi-structured one for employees and the semi-structured questionnaire and interview for the heads. The data gathered was analysed by taking advantage of single-group t statistical methods and independent groups for quantitative part and the Categorisation method was analysed based on the frequency for the qualitative sector. The results showed that the status of transfer of training for employees of Tehran municipality is at an average to high level. Also, the findings of the research indicate that both personal and organisational elements have a crucial role to play in transferring training and the most important obstacles identified for this issue was high amount of work and inappropriate amount of education for some of the courses.