Organizational Factors on Transferring Effective Learning to Workplace: Case study of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGS)
Subject Areas :Alireza Youzbashi 1 * , Khodayar Abili 2 , 3 , 4
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2 - University of Tehran
3 - University of Tehran
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Keywords: Organizational Factor, Transfer of Learning, Workplace, National Iranian Gas Company.,
Abstract :
This study identifies effective organizational factors on transferring learning to workplace at National Iranian Gas Company. Research method is qualitative with the approach of focus group. The population included academic experts, managers, and deputies of human resources and education of NIGC. Depth interviews were conducted with 16 people of them with purposive sampling method. For data analysis, thematic analysis (theme) was used. The validity of the findings was guaranteed using survey methods by the members and multilateral review of data resources. In order to assess the reliability of codes, retest reliability and agreement within the thematic approach were used. After reviewing and organizing interviews, the researcher identified codes or primary concepts and they were classified with similar codes. Titles showing the total codes of that category were selected for each of them. As a result, main effective organizational factors on transferring learning to the workplace at NIGC were detected as follows: organizational culture, organizational climate, organizational support, organizational outcome, performance management, organizational justice, Features of direct manager, participation in decision-making, learner environment, application opportunity and the proportion of occupation and employee.
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