Studying the Challenges in the Transfer of Learning to Workplace in Public Organizations of Kurdistan Province (A Qualitative Research)
Subject Areas :Sirous Ghanbari 1 , gholamreza shams mourkani 2 , mahboobeh arefi 3 , khalil zandi 4
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2 - دانشگاه شهید بهشتی
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Keywords: Transfer of Learning to Workplace, Personal Barriers, Training Barriers, Organizational Barriers.,
Abstract :
The current qualitative study tried to study the challenges in the transfer of learning to workplace. The field study was public organizations of Kurdistan province and its research method was Grounded Theory based on a systematic approach. A group of 48 people including employees, supervisors, experts and education officials, senior executives, and teachers and specialists of training and human resource development were studied by purposive sampling method. Semi-structured individual interviews were used for gathering data and at the same time, the interviews were analyzed by open coding, axial coding, selective coding and annotating. The validity of analysis was confirmed using member checking and triangulation techniques. Based on the results, the most important causes of indifference to the transfer of learning included: motivational barriers, barriers related to individual characteristics, improper timing, barriers to teaching, content and evaluation, administrative barriers, supportive barriers and obstacles focused on the job. Factors underlying indifference to the transfer of learning Included: Non-supportive organizational culture, disturbing administrative system, and climate of organizational indifference. Employee strategies in the face of such a situation may be reactive behaviors, negative behaviors and positive compensatory behaviors. The consequences of such a situation, at the individual level are Job stillness, job procrastination, lack of creation and deviant behaviors; in addition to, consequences at the individual level are Loss of educational investment and reduce organizational success.
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