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Factors Affecting Training Transfer

Objective

Training transfer is defined as the extent to which trainees apply their knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired in training to the working situation. Training transfer has been discussed in a number of different of fields of human behavior including psychology, anthropology and economics. Generally, there are three groups of factors influencing training transfer. These factors represent aspects of trainee characteristics, training design, and work environment. However it has been argued that our understanding of real transfer issues is still incomplete. The question of how researchers with innovative ideas should proceed from this state is still open. Training transfer can not be successful if the trainee has no intention, has been called (training) transfer strategy, to transfer learned skills and knowledge to his/her workplace. Therefore, this project will explore the role of transfer strategy and its interaction with training design, trainee characteristics and work environment as these affect training transfer. The project has the potential to create a new framework for the development of a systematic approach of the transfer process. This is a novel approach never attempted in the existing literature. To our knowledge, none of the models that exist today explain the effect of combination of training design, trainee characteristics and work environment, with transfer strategy influence to explain and predict training transfer. The project provides an important further step toward understanding training transfer by taking into account the effects of other transfer-influencing factors. This research results are not only is directed to the academic community, but also to other possible beneficiaries such as policy makers or business leaders. It gives importance to the role of the participants' transfer strategy, leading to increased effectiveness in the training transfer. In turn, the results can bring greater benefit to organizations that use training.

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FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
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MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

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UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
EU contribution
€ 159 100,00
Address
PRINSSTRAAT 13
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium

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Region
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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