Effects of business embedded & traditional training models on employees’ job motivation

Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz and Hasan, Syed Akif and Rahat, Omer (2010): Effects of business embedded & traditional training models on employees’ job motivation.

Abstract

Service industry is now focusing more and more on providing valuable training opportunities to its employees in order to improve the quality of its services and benchmarking them as its competitive advantage. This research has attempted to understand the effects of the Business Embedded Training Model and the Traditional Training Model on employees’ job motivation. A sample of 80 organizations and 1000 respondents was taken and Group T-Test and Log Linear Logit techniques were used to evaluate that which training model is preferred over the other by the service industry and which training model has more positive effects on employees’ job motivation.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Training, Motivation, Performance
• Subjects: P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P17 - Performance and Prospects; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials; P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P27 - Performance and Prospects

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