E-Coaching: Web-based Innovation
Subject Areas :
Ebrahim
Rajabpour
1
(University of Tehran)
مهدی
افخمی اردکانی
2
عزیزه
حسینی اقبال
3
Keywords: Coaching E-Coaching, Adoption of E-Coaching Information and Communication Technology Innovation ,
Abstract :
The emergence of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially the Internet, has created a new concept in human resource management, which is called electronic coaching or e-coaching. According to the numerous advantages of e-coaching, the aim of this study is to provide an e-coaching model for IT service providers companies by applying comparative study and measuring the factors related to acceptance of the provided model. The population consists of 258 coaches in the field of information technology in Tehran, which has led to 104 fully answered questionnaires. For validity, the opinions of faculty members and experts in the field were examined. The reliability of the questionnaire also was measured by Cronbach's alpha, led to the ratio between 0.74 and 0.91 for various factors. For data analysis, structural equation modeling, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test) were used. The results showed that the relative advantage, complexity, visibility, individual innovation, gender, age, education, computer skills and perceptual barriers predict the process of e- coaching acceptance
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