As the importance of human resources development is growing in the knowledge-based society, corporations are interested in education more than ever. Especially, with the technology development, e-Learning is becoming a preferred learning method by cor...
As the importance of human resources development is growing in the knowledge-based society, corporations are interested in education more than ever. Especially, with the technology development, e-Learning is becoming a preferred learning method by corporations in aspect of efficiency.
However, on the other side of this marvelous growth, the difficulty of practical measurement for corporations' profit through e-Learning become critical issues. Therefore, to resolve these problems, it is urgent to figure out critical factors influencing training outcomes and how to enhance those factors.
Until now, learning outcomes are mainly discussed within the limit of learners’ satisfaction and achievement while corporations and learners expect to apply what is learnt to the job and increase organization performance as well as having efficiency and convenience. Accordingly, the focus should be on the transfer intentions which happens when applying trained results to the job.
So, it is necessary to understand diverse variable comprehensively. Therefore, this study is intended to evaluate the integrating model that explains the transfer intentions in corporate e-Learning and verify the casual relationship among the variables related to learning transfer. Thus, present study investigates the structural relationship among occupational self-efficacy, task value, work autonomy, satisfaction, academic achievement and transfer intentions. Based on the literature review, occupational self-efficacy, task value have been chosen as motivation variables, work autonomy as a learning environment variable, and satisfaction, academic achievement, transfer intentions have been chosen as outcome variables.
The Research questions are:
1. Do occupational self-efficacy, task value and work autonomy have direct effects on satisfaction?
2. Do occupational self-efficacy, task value, work autonomy, and satisfaction have direct effects on academic achievement?
3. Do occupational self-efficacy, task value, work autonomy, satisfaction, and academic achievement have direct effects on transfer intentions?
The survey was conducted two times on the learners who were enrolled in an e-Learning course at A company in Korea. 311 participants went through this course and answered the survey but, 40 respondents who did not complete their surveys were excluded. A total of 271 cases were analyzed for the research.
For statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, confirmative factor analysis, structural equation modeling analysis and Sobel's test were used.
The major findings of this study are as follows.
First, task value had statistically significant direct effects on satisfaction. That is, learners' satisfaction will be improved when they have higher task value. However, no direct effect of learners’ occupational self-efficacy and work autonomy were found.
Second, occupational self-efficacy, work autonomy and satisfaction had statistically significant direct effects on academic achievement. That is, when they have higher self-efficacy on their tasks, and when they perceive their job environments are autonomous, learners' academic achievement will be increased. However, learners’ task value had no direct effect on academic achievement.
Third, occupational self-efficacy, satisfaction and academic achievement had statistically significant direct effects on transfer intentions. However, no direct effect of learners’ task value and work autonomy were found.
Based on the results of this study, further research is suggested as follows.
First, the same research should be done on a different company in order to examine the differences in the variables of transfer intentions according to the diverse context.
Second, there may be other motivation variables related to training outcomes, so diverse variables such as awareness of big picture, situational constraints should be considered.
Lastly, further research should involve learning transfer variable to examining transfer intentions' significance in these relationship.