Research on the Correlations between Organizational Context, Personality Traits and Motivation for Learning and Transfer-A Case Study on Administrative Personnel from One Hospital System in Taiwan

Abstract

Purposes: This paper aims to probe into the influence of organizational context in hospitals and employees' personality traits on training, motivation for learning and transfer, thus putting forward feasible suggestions offered to hospitals for reference in enhancing the training effectiveness to achieve the win-win goal for both the organizations and employees. Methodologies: It takes all administrative personnel from one hospital in northern Taiwan as the research subjects. We had collected 277 questionnaires from a total of 390 ones dispatched, among which there were effective 263 questionnaires that made up effective recycling rate of 67.44%. The t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe post-hoc comparison and Pearson Correlation Analysis were used in this research to carry out the survey. Results: It showed significant differences in the influence on motivation for learning and transfer by the factor if the related information is offered prior to the training; the learning motivation for those who were voluntary to attend the training was higher than that for those designated by supervisors; the motivation for learning and transfer for those who should bear the post-training responsibilities and obligations was higher than that for those who would not bear the responsibilities and obligations; one with a higher cognition toward organizational support, higher internal locus of control or greater self-efficacy showed higher motivation for learning and transfer. Conclusions: We do hereby suggest that hospitals should offer related information, communicate with employees about the training courses, inform employees about the post-training responsibilities and obligations they will bear, give concern to employees' welfare and value opinions, and develop deeper understanding of employees' personality traits and assist them in increasing their self-efficacy before they attend the training, in hopes of enhancing their motivation for learning and transfer effectively. We suggest that subsequent researchers can expand their research subjects to employees under different categories in hospitals to explore the influential factors for motivation for learning and transfer and their impact on learning results and transfer effects.