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TRAINING MANAGEMENT
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TRANSFER OF LEARNING FROM
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS: TESTING THE HOLTON
MODEL
BY:
Cyril Kirwan and David Birchall
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INTRODUCTION:
• Purpose of the Paper:
• Transfer of learning from management development programs at
workplace has been of vital interest in HRD practice and theory
because these programs involve large amounts of investment and are
aimed at consequent organizational performance
• A slightly revised model was presented with the central role of the
learners’ personal capacity for transfer and their motivation to
transfer
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FURTHER INVESTIGATION:
• For the purpose to testify the Holton’s model, a total of 112 nurse managers
in Ireland took part in one of four separate but similar management develop
ment programs, all delivered by the same provider
• First, simple bivariate co-relations were sought to determine what factors rel
ated most strongly to each other, then, partial co-relations or linear regressi
on was used to further investigate the strength and direction of these relatio
nships
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RESULTS:
• Whether the model predicts learning transfer or
not is beyond the scope of this study because it
can be complex and subjected to a range of indi
vidual, training design and organizational influ
ences