Impact of the Asian Economic Crisis on Training Intentions and Outcomes

• Main Authors: LEE, Soo-Hoon, PHAN, Phillip H., TAN, Gilbert Y. W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2613; https://doi.org/10.1016/s1053-4822(03)00046-9
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We tested the notion that employability is an antecedent to training intentions and outcomes by investigating if the Asian economic crisis motivated workers to go for more training. The severity of the crisis was operationalized in two ways. First, we compared the training intentions and actual trai...