International Journal of Training and Development最新文献

{"title":"The impact of skills and training on local development","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12240","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Vocational and professional education and training are activities to provide apprentices and other professional newcomers with conceptual knowledge, technical skills, work experience, social aptitude and self-competency. All these activities will enable professional newcomers to accomplish their work tasks while contributing to the learners’ personal growth. In this context, “development” means competence improvement and thus relates to the individual’s development through learning. Besides such <i>personal development</i>, vocational and professional education and training is also considered a means to foster <i>local development</i>. Whether vocational and professional education and training really improve local development, and under what conditions, is a largely underexplored field. Lewis (<span>1997</span>) already raised this topic in the First Issue of the International Journal of Training and Development. While Lewis (<span>1997</span>) understood “the local” as the systemic and policy-related institutional level of the nation state, this Special Issue includes further spatial scales, especially on subnational level. This Special Issue collates perspectives of vocational education research and economic geography to explore this field that is relevant for academic debates and policymaking.</p><p>The Special Issue endeavours to clarify the question if and how vocational and professional education and training foster local development. To this end, the meaning of local development first needs some specification. “Local development” can mean regional-economic growth, local innovative capabilities, sustainable social change and the ecological transition (Fromhold-Eisebith et al., <span>2014</span>). Hence, it is always necessary to specify the objectives of local development. At the same time, local development as a theoretical and policy-relevant concept requires a comprehensive approach, comprising socio-economic and ecological development.</p><p>If the term “local development” relates to research on regions in the Global South and in emerging economies, critiques from dependency theory and postcolonial perspectives must be involved. Then, the question appears who decides about development objectives and measures, and who is involved in these processes. Academic intervention is difficult and raises the question of legitimacy. Korf (<span>2018</span>) distinguishes two attitudes of (Northern) academics who conduct research in the field of international cooperation. On the one side, they take a position of external critique of the global development apparatus and a distant view. On the other side, there is a position that empathically accepts the productive hermeneutic tension between ethical engagement and developmental practices. The positioning within this field of tensions and contradictions is necessary, particularly in cases of international transfer of vocational and professional education and training.</p><p>Besides the clarificatio","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 4","pages":"341-346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.12240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137672532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influence of individual personality traits and team characteristics on training transfer: A longitudinal study","authors":"Marius Deckers,&nbsp;Tobias Altmann,&nbsp;Marcus Roth","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12237","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research has established that the successful transfer of training content into daily work life depends both on the trainees’ individual characteristics and the characteristics of their work team. Specifically, multiple meta-analyses and reviews have confirmed that individuals’ openness to experience, agreeableness, and neuroticism, as well as cohesion and transfer climate within the team, influence training transfer. The present study is the first to operationalise and measure both individual and team characteristics in the same sample with a longitudinal study design, enabling a comparison. Training transfer was operationalised as changes in psychological strain following an intervention. Using multilevel analysis techniques with a sample of 275 nurses, individual personality characteristics were not found to influence training transfer, but team cohesion and team members’ mean-level conscientiousness did. However, these influences were not in the expected direction. This can be partially explained by the pattern of longitudinal development in the data, in which individuals with higher initial values on psychological strain experienced greater improvement; however, some aspects of the results remained unexplained. Generally, the results suggest that team characteristics are more important than individual characteristics for training transfer. Theoretical and practical implications for future studies are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"69-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.12237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41988911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediation of perceived content validity on motivation and training transfer among smallholder farmers in Central Uganda","authors":"Ismail Twase,&nbsp;Richard F. Miiro,&nbsp;Frank Matsiko,&nbsp;Sulaiman Ndaula,&nbsp;Mathias Ssamula","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12236","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Farmer training is a key strategy for building skills that lead to enhanced productivity of small-scale farmers' fields. This result hinges on farmers transferring the training to their fields. However, the factors that determine the subsequent transfer of training including those with mediating effects are not fully known. A study was conducted to assess the mediating role of perceived content validity on the association of farmers' motivation to implement acquired knowledge with actual training transfer outcomes from a random sample of 603 Ugandan farmers who had received four agricultural related trainings. Using Structural Equation Modelling, results indicated intrinsic motivation (<i>β</i> = 0.246; <i>t</i> = 2.991; <i>p</i> &lt; 0.05) and perceived content validity <b>(</b><i>β</i> = 0.325; <i>t</i> = 2.693; <i>p</i> &lt; 0.05) to strongly influence training transfer. Intrinsic motivation predicted up to 45% of variance in farmers' perceptions about training design suitability. Perceived content validity mediated the relationship between intrinsic motivations to implement acquired knowledge and training transfer. In order to improve the transfer of learnt knowledge among smallholder farmers, trainers need to pay attention to pre-training efforts, such as adopting a criterion of assessment checklist for identifying highly motivated trainees, as mechanisms for obtaining internally motivated training participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"55-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42433156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What changes with coaching? Investigating within-person changes in reflection, the predicting role of implicit person theory and the effects on perceived utility of coaching","authors":"Andrea Fontes,&nbsp;Silvia Dello Russo","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12235","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12235","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coaching literature assumes that people undergo personal change through coaching. We contend that different types of change may occur with coaching and investigate whether this is the case in reflection (a key competence in coaching). Results from our sample of 61 coachees indicate that three types of change (alpha, beta, gamma) are observed across participants. Alpha change refers to a substantive change in reflection (i.e. an increase or decrease), beta to a recalibration of one's assessment of reflection and gamma to a re-conceptualization of reflection. We further examine implicit person theory (IPT) as a predictor and perceived coaching utility as a correlate of the three types of change. We observe a higher probability that incremental IPT will associate with alpha change versus other types of change, and that beta and gamma changes correlate positively and negatively, respectively, with perceived utility for work. No significant correlations are observed between types of change and perceived utility for personal development. Our study represents an exploratory contribution to a better understanding of the within-person changes in reflection following coaching intervention, and has implications for both theory and practice, which we discuss along with indications for future directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"316-340"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49251916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating training and performance management of civil aviation inspectors: A pilot study of the mediating role of competency-based training","authors":"Maja Vaskova Kjulavkovska,&nbsp;Giovanni Oscar Serafini,&nbsp;Leslie Thomas Szamosi","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12234","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Competency-based training (CBT) is gaining popularity as an approach towards creating a highly skilled workforce while reducing the skill gaps faced by industry. Integrated within an organisation's management systems, it can lead to benefits such as increased productivity and strengthened employee engagement. While CBT of aviation industry personnel is well-researched, CBT of civil aviation inspectors is surprisingly under-researched. To better understand the role that CBT plays as a link between organisational training and performance management, a pilot study was carried out involving eleven European Civil Aviation Authorities (CAAs) to establish the feasibility of conducting a larger-scale study. This research examines CBT elements which were then benchmarked against the Framework for integrating training and performance management systems of CAAs through CBT. The results indicate that the elements of CBT applied by CAAs in Europe are generally consistent; however, not all the recommended elements are included and applied harmoniously, leading to inconsistencies in implementing the approach. Implications of the study for training and performance management, as well as for future research, are identified.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"29-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46065257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defining motivation in video game-based training: Exploring the differences between measures of motivation","authors":"Diana R. Sanchez,&nbsp;Tristan Nelson,&nbsp;Kurt Kraiger,&nbsp;Erik Weiner,&nbsp;Yucheng Lu,&nbsp;Jasmine Schnall","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12233","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12233","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Game-based training research has produced various definitions and measures for learner motivation. Inconsistent findings on learner motivation may have contributed to the misapplication of one type of motivation to explain another; inhibiting future research and generating false implications. This study compared 172 students in game-based or computer-based training learning French. Results showed unique relationships between three measures of learner motivation (i.e. motivation to learn, intrinsic motivation and engagement). Motivation to learn did not differ between conditions, while intrinsic motivation and engagement did. A significant portion of the variance in content reactions was explained by all three measures of motivation, while variance for technology reactions was explained only by the motivation to learn and engagement. None of the measures for motivation accounted for significant variance in declarative or procedural knowledge. Results indicate key differences in three measures of motivation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42197072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Training poverty in India: Reassessing the effect of social ascription","authors":"Vasiliy A. Anikin","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12231","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12231","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper set out to reassess the effects of economic and social determinants of the probability of formal vocational training in India. Applying the four-level cross-classified logistic model to the 2011–2012 National Sample Survey data, the paper identified the association between formal training and ‘good jobs’ in large urban electrified firms that offer permanent employment and regular monthly salary to their skilled occupation workers. Nevertheless, India remains a country of severe training poverty. This study confirms that the traditional mindset of the society does contribute to the training poverty; however, this impact is much limited to the household level and religious groups, such as Christians, which are systematically excluded from formal training as compared to Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. In contrast, the lower castes and deprived social backgrounds do not affect, as predicted by previous studies. Moreover, it is shown that unskilled males from the rural area of India were less likely to receive formal training as compared to educated single women.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"277-300"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43553795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting aviation training performance with multimodal affective inferences","authors":"Tianshu Li,&nbsp;Susanne Lajoie","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12232","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12232","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Affect influences learning and training through various cognitive, psychomotor and motivational processes. This research aims to examine the role of affect in aviation training. Participants’ (<i>N</i> = 19) affect and performance were examined in simulated aviation training while they performed ten tasks. Affective states were inferred from electrodermal activity, facial expression and NASA Taskload Index. Performance accuracy was graded with the rubrics provided by pilot instructors in CAE Inc. We found that arousal (inferred from electrodermal activity) positively predicted performance in the level 2 (easy) task (<i>F</i>(1, 17) = 7.408, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.05, <i>std β</i> = 0.55). Mental workload (as measured from self-report) negatively predicted performance in the level 3 (medium difficulty) (<i>F</i>(1, 15) = 4.598, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.05, <i>std β</i> = −0.54) and level 4 (difficult) tasks (<i>F</i>(1, 15) = 12.85, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.01, <i>std β</i> = −0.73), controlling for affect valence and arousal. This research is a preliminary step to a reconsideration of affect in theoretical frameworks in aviation. It demonstrates a comprehensive assessment of affect in aviation training, which could provide guidelines for instructional interventions to improve the overall training experience and pilot performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"301-315"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44543942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local embeddedness and training intensity: The mobility constraints perspective","authors":"Przemysław Piasecki","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12230","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12230","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between a company's local embeddedness and training intensity. It is argued that local embeddedness might influence training through several mechanisms, which eventually should lead to a higher level of training intensity. In order to verify this hypothesis, several two-level ordered logit models were analysed on the basis of data gathered from employees working in Polish cooperative banks (<i>N</i> = 1707). Results confirm a positive correlation between local embeddedness and training intensity (measured by the number of training events and the number of training days). Next, it was verified to what extent this relationship might be attributed to the employees’ mobility constraints. To reach this goal, the level of education was employed as a moderator in a company's local embeddedness and training intensity relationship. The interaction analysis revealed that for lower thresholds (lower intensity of training) the positive correlation between local embeddedness and training intensity occurred only for employees with higher education. Since the employees with a higher level of education are generally perceived as those who receive more training, but are also more willing to change the employer, this result suggests the occurrence of a mobility constraints mechanism of local embeddedness.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"259-276"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48749631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The region matters—for whom? The regional actor network for vocational education and training in tourism of Cancún (Mexico)","authors":"Natascha Röhrer,&nbsp;Beke Vogelsang,&nbsp;Martina Fuchs","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12217","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12217","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Actor networks are relevant to provide vocational education and training. Many studies have focused on such networks without a clear regional focus. Suggesting a conceptual approach of regional actor networks based on contributions of business education and economic geography, this study analyses the regional actor network in the tourism sector in Cancún (Mexico). Methodologically, the study follows an exploratory qualitative approach. The results illustrate that there are two dominant axes within the regional network, which comprise on the one hand hotels cooperating with applied universities, and on the other hand hotels cooperating with vocational schools. This local actor network has impacts on the practical relevance that vocational education and training provides to the learners, and generates a particular, and rather vulnerable, way of regional development.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"244-258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ijtd.12217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44043555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}