Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach

Public sector organisations which invest in trainingprogrammes care about their employees’ successful application of learntknowledge and skills in the workplace. The present study finds that leadersupport positively influences public sector employees’ training motivation,specifically the motivation...

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Main Authors: KIM, Yong Hyun, ONG, Madeline, CHUNG, Jang Hoon
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-60972020-06-08T02:49:09Z Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach KIM, Yong Hyun ONG, Madeline, CHUNG, Jang Hoon Public sector organisations which invest in trainingprogrammes care about their employees’ successful application of learntknowledge and skills in the workplace. The present study finds that leadersupport positively influences public sector employees’ training motivation,specifically the motivation to transfer learnt knowledge and skills to theirjobs. However, this positive relationship is moderated by employees’ priorknowledge of training content. When employees have high levels of priorknowledge of training content, leader support is not a significant influence ontheir motivation to transfer learnt knowledge and skills to their jobs. Thesefindings are derived from a survey of 335 South Korean government officials whorecently participated in a training programme that focused on performancemanagement systems. The findings suggest that leaders need to take a contingentapproach when expressing support for training programmes. 2014-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5098 info:doi/10.1080/23276665.2014.999398 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6097/viewcontent/Enhancing_training_motivation_public_sector_South_Korea_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University training motivation motivation to transfer contingent leadership prior knowledge employee training South Korea Asian Studies Developmental Psychology
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topic training motivation
motivation to transfer
contingent leadership
prior knowledge
employee training
South Korea
Asian Studies
Developmental Psychology
spellingShingle training motivation
motivation to transfer
contingent leadership
prior knowledge
employee training
South Korea
Asian Studies
Developmental Psychology
KIM, Yong Hyun
ONG, Madeline,
CHUNG, Jang Hoon
Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach
description Public sector organisations which invest in trainingprogrammes care about their employees’ successful application of learntknowledge and skills in the workplace. The present study finds that leadersupport positively influences public sector employees’ training motivation,specifically the motivation to transfer learnt knowledge and skills to theirjobs. However, this positive relationship is moderated by employees’ priorknowledge of training content. When employees have high levels of priorknowledge of training content, leader support is not a significant influence ontheir motivation to transfer learnt knowledge and skills to their jobs. Thesefindings are derived from a survey of 335 South Korean government officials whorecently participated in a training programme that focused on performancemanagement systems. The findings suggest that leaders need to take a contingentapproach when expressing support for training programmes.
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author KIM, Yong Hyun
ONG, Madeline,
CHUNG, Jang Hoon
author_facet KIM, Yong Hyun
ONG, Madeline,
CHUNG, Jang Hoon
author_sort KIM, Yong Hyun
title Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach
title_short Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach
title_full Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach
title_fullStr Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing training motivation in the public sector in South Korea: The value of a contingency approach
title_sort enhancing training motivation in the public sector in south korea: the value of a contingency approach
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2014
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5098
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