Thearetical & Luantitative Research On Individual & Organizational Influences On Corporate Training Effectiveness

It's time for the competition for talents. Training plays an important role in cultivating, developing and retaining talents. Effective training activities can build the individual competency and thus enhance the corporate competency level. More and more local enterprises start to put emphasize on training.Past theoretical research on training effectiveness indicates that, there are mainly four measures: reaction, learning, behavior change and result. However, a variety of factors may have a significant impact on training effectiveness. In general, these factors can be characterized as follows: (1) trainee characteristics; (2)contextual factors; and (3) training system characteristics. Only by identifying the key factors can we develop countermeasures to maximize the training effectiveness. Therefore, studying both individual and organizational influence on training effectiveness is valuable theoretically and practically.With the scale developed by the author, the paper explores the individual and organizational factors that influence the training effectiveness, and probes into the structure of the training evaluation, then suggests how to improve the effectiveness.Through literatures analyzing, talking with experts, field studying and so on, the paper generalizes individual and organizational factors that influence the training effectiveness, among which there are 7 individual factors: expectation I, expectation II, job involvement, self-efficacy, learning motivation, transfer motivation and perceived training transfer, and two organizational factors: environmental favorability and training transfer climate. Based on the analysis, we make up "training effectiveness scale" with 83 items. The results indicate the scale has high reliability and validity.The paper tests the construct validation of "the training effectiveness scale" and the subscales with the 315 subjects (trainees who participated the teambuilding training within the past year and their direct bosses). The results of Confirmation Factor Analysis (CFA) show, the construct validation of the scale and subscales is good. The model that is consisted of individual variables, organizational variables and training outcome measures, fits in well with actual data.In a word, the study pioneers the probing into the individual and organizational factors that have impact on the training effectiveness. There remains the need for further deep study on how to interpose the factors and improve the training effectiveness. It is of practical significance to make a deeper study so as to enrich the training theories and promote the work of personnel development and learning organization building at local enterprises.