Training and organisational performance: A <scp>meta‐analysis</scp> of temporal, institutional and organisational context moderators
verifiedmedium profile · Human Resource Management Journal · 2020
Garavan, Thomas; McCarthy, Alma; Lai, Yanqing; Murphy, Kevin; Sheehan, Maura; Carbery, Ronan
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Abstract Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta‐analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of training, time, institutional and organisational context factors in the relationship between training and organisational performance. Our findings reveal that training is positively and directly related to organisational performance with no statistically significant difference between measures of training quality and quantity. We found that the relationship was stronger over time and that country performance orientation and country labour cost moderate the training and organisational performance relationship. We found no evidence for the moderating effects of the three organisational context moderators we examined (i.e. industry sector, organisational size and technology intensity). Finally, our results reveal that training type (i.e. general or firm‐specific) does not moderate the training and organisational performance relationship.
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supports “…and significant relationship between training effectiveness and individual quality and employee performance support the primary assumption of this theory, namely that increasing human capacity through training will produce better organizational outcomes (Garavan et al., 2021; Gil et al., 2023).”
supports “Thus, training is one of the most effective tools to enhance the employee performance and to achieve the organizational objectives and goals effectively and efficiently (Afroz, 2018; Garavan et al., 2020).”
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