Supervisor's role in training programs as a manager of learning program

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Muhammad Madi, Baroto, Mas Bambang, Ismail, Azman, Huam, Hon Tat
• Format: Article
• Published: Scientific Journal of Logistics 2011
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/39962/; http://www.logforum.net/pdf/7_2_2_11.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

According to the training literature, a supervisor's role in training programs has two major elements : supervisor support and supervisor communication. The ability of supervisors to play effective roles in training programs may increase employees' motivation to learn. The nature of this relationship is interesting, but the role of supervisor's role as a predicting variable is less emphasized in a training program models. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the effect of supervisor's role in training programs on motivation to learn using 152 usable questionnaires gathered from non-academic employees who have worked in a technological based public university, Malaysia. The outcomes of stepwise regression analysis showed that the supervisor support and supervisor communication significantly associated with motivation to learn. Statistically, this result demonstrates that supervisor's role in training programs does act as an important predictor of motivation to learn in the organizational sample. In addition, discussion, implication and conclusion are elaborated.