Training transfer dimensions and employees performance in Nigerian Public Universities: A theoretical overview

• Main Authors: Palladan, Ahmed A., Ibrahim, Abdullahi O., Ahmad, Muhammad A.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/27998/1/INSORPAD%202020%2047%2054.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/27998/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This paper tends to theoretically examine the effects of training transfer dimensions on employees performance in Nigerian public Universities. Employees plays an active role towards the success of any organizations which makes them often be regarded as the major assets of any organization. In modern organizations, human resources largely determine the quality of success or failure achieved. As a result, equipping the employee through effective training has becomes imperative in order to maximize their job performance which in turn boost organizational performance. Well-trained and highly developed employees are imperative for long-lasting success to be achieved in Nigerian public universities. Training transfer enables employees to apply the skills they learned from training on the job. It is a critical process, which aims at improving the performance of workers in an organization. In order to form competent employees, relevant expertise and intellectual capacity needs to be improved. Transfer of training refers to applying the knowledge or abilities acquired in order to solve a problem. This paper focus on assessing the effect of four training dimensions that falls under employee characteristics: self efficacy, learning motivation, motivation to transfer and personality. Public universities in Nigeria control more than 90% of Nigerian total university enrollment in the country. Thus, their performance through the effectives of their employees will be of great important to Nigerian progress and development.