Evaluating Training Effectiveness: Critical Studies in the Last Eight Decades

Mohamad Kenan Assi, Valliappan Raju

Training, Training Effectiveness, Motivation, Psychology, Attitude.

The paper is an attempt to provide an influential and critical discussion to a very wide range of papers which could be ranged between the 1970s until 2020. A thorough discussion that influences training, organizations, trainers, and trainees was provided aiming at evaluating the training effectiveness.  The paper has concluded that training could be more effective when organizations focus on the content of the training that is aligned with the strategical goal of the organization.  The study has shown the effect of factors that have the highest priority to achieve the best training effectiveness.  These factors include motivation, attitude, emotional intelligence management support, style of training style, trainer’s open-mindedness, self-efficacy, and basic ability.  These factors were determined throughout many studies as the dominant factors.  This means that ensuring better training effectiveness, managers have to allow employees to practice the acquired skills due to training at the workplace. The attitude of the trainees could be used as a criterion to make an initial assessment of how much the training effectiveness has been achieved.  However, the huge success of studies about evaluating the training effectiveness, it seems that more studies are still needed in at least three dimensions: influence of motivation, the attitude of employees, and developing a better model. 

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.11.1.12