|
|||||
|
|
Managers' personal values as predictors of importance attached to training and development: a cross-country exploratory study |
|
| Authors: | David McGuire Thomas N. Garavan David O'Donnell Sudhir K. Saha Maria Cseh |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Business, Enterprise amd Management , Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland dmcguire@qmu.ac.uk;3. Department of Personnel and Employment Relations , University of Limerick , Ireland;4. Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland , County Limerick, Ireland;5. Memorial University of Newfoundland , St. John's, Canada;6. Department of Counselling/Human and Organizational Studies , George Washington University , Washington, DC, USA |
| Abstract: | Few empirical studies have examined the effect of personal values on the importance attached by individuals to training and development in organizations. We argue that personal values play an important role in decision-making processes (i.e. commitment to training and development) and that such values are the product of socialization processes operating at an organizational and societal level. Questionnaire data were collected from 340 Irish and Canadian line managers to test the hypothesis that personal values affect the importance attached by respondents to training and development. Capability values were found to be a significant positive predictor of the perceived importance of training and development. The findings emphasize the need for simultaneously examining both personal values and organizational factors as predictors of training and development activity. |
| Keywords: | training and development personal values line managers |