TRAINEES’ BEHAVIOR, ORGANIZATIONAL INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS: A CASE OF PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA.

Abstract

The main motive of this study was to explore the impact of trainees’ behaviors (motivation, employees’ commitment and learning) and organizational interventions (training needs assessment and training framing) and the cumulative impact on training effectiveness in the public sector organizations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A total of 635 respondents, associated with government organizations working in BPS-17 & above and have successfully completed their trainings in last two years were selected through stratified random sampling technique. Data was analyzed with the help of structural equation modeling technique. To validate the study model, confirmatory factor analysis was used. Results revealed that employees’ commitment, TNA, employees’ learning, employees’ motivation and training framing has positive impact on training effectiveness. The results of current study will help future researchers to understand and explore the association in similar settings. It is expected that policymakers, and administrators of public sector organizations may use these results for the training effectiveness, and will enable them to utilize organizational resources (human and financial) in efficient and effective manner. Qualitative study in pre and post training, may discover some further aspects of the resulted association