INVESTIGATING EXTENT TO WHICH COMPANIES’ ENVIRONMENT ARE SUPPORTIVE FOR TRAINING TRANSFER IN SAUDI ARABIA

Abstract

Saudi Arabia companies have started to recognize important role of their human capital in ensure their organizational competitive advantage which lot emphasis has been placed on their workforce training and development. The training transfer is considered key valuable measures in assessing training success, this study aims to investigate the extent to which Saudi companies ‘work environment support training transfer. The study investi6gated this relationship through focused on examining four selected work environment factors: peer support, supervisor support, opportunity usage and performance coaching. The study had been conducted on well-known petrochemical company based in Saudi Arabia which quantitative methodology had been carried out with questionnaire. There were 20 respondents were collected which key finding reported that company culture has indeed facilitated training transfer, where all factors were highly rated by all participants. The study also reported that along with work environment factors, trainees’ characteristics and training design factors had played an important role in influencing training transfer.