TY - JOUR
T1 - Training and organisational performance
T2 - A meta-analysis of temporal, institutional and organisational context moderators
AU - Garavan, Thomas
AU - McCarthy, Alma
AU - Lai, Yanqing
AU - Murphy, Kevin
AU - Sheehan, Maura
AU - Carbery, Ronan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of training, time, institutional and organisational context factors in the relationship between training and organisational performance. Our findings reveal that training is positively and directly related to organisational performance with no statistically significant difference between measures of training quality and quantity. We found that the relationship was stronger over time and that country performance orientation and country labour cost moderate the training and organisational performance relationship. We found no evidence for the moderating effects of the three organisational context moderators we examined (i.e. industry sector, organisational size and technology intensity). Finally, our results reveal that training type (i.e. general or firm-specific) does not moderate the training and organisational performance relationship.
AB - Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity of training, time, institutional and organisational context factors in the relationship between training and organisational performance. Our findings reveal that training is positively and directly related to organisational performance with no statistically significant difference between measures of training quality and quantity. We found that the relationship was stronger over time and that country performance orientation and country labour cost moderate the training and organisational performance relationship. We found no evidence for the moderating effects of the three organisational context moderators we examined (i.e. industry sector, organisational size and technology intensity). Finally, our results reveal that training type (i.e. general or firm-specific) does not moderate the training and organisational performance relationship.
KW - meta-analysis
KW - moderators
KW - organisational performance
KW - training
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U2 - 10.1111/1748-8583.12284
DO - 10.1111/1748-8583.12284
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078954891
SN - 0954-5395
VL - 31
SP - 93
EP - 119
JO - Human Resource Management Journal
JF - Human Resource Management Journal
IS - 1
ER -