Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review

Attainment of the Malaysian Education Blueprint depends on effective training strategies and continuous professional development among academicians. In retrospect, the effectiveness of these programs depends on the degree of participation of employees’ and hence, reflects in the quality of Malaysian...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Nor Hazana, Mokhtar, Ikram Shah, Wahab, Eta, Shamsuddin, Alina, Abdul Hamid, Nor aziati
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Published: American Scientific Publishers 2018
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author Abdullah, Nor Hazana
Mokhtar, Ikram Shah
Wahab, Eta
Shamsuddin, Alina
Abdul Hamid, Nor aziati
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Mokhtar, Ikram Shah
Wahab, Eta
Shamsuddin, Alina
Abdul Hamid, Nor aziati
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description Attainment of the Malaysian Education Blueprint depends on effective training strategies and continuous professional development among academicians. In retrospect, the effectiveness of these programs depends on the degree of participation of employees’ and hence, reflects in the quality of Malaysian Higher Education system. Preliminary interviews conducted with several public universities’ training officers highlighted that low training participation as one of the most pressing challenges. There is lack of motivation among academicians to participate in training programs since they are not properly linked with vital human resources functions such as successive planning, promotion and annual performance appraisal. Since training programs are costly investment, participation to completion is therefore a precondition for such investment to be worthy. This paper presents a systematic review of existing training participation literatures to establish the empirical gaps and gain in-depth understanding on factors affecting training participation. Our reviews indicate that factors affecting training participation could be grouped into several recurring themes which are training-related factors, individual-related factors and organizational-related factors and job-related factors. Learning theories, training models, Theory of Human Capital and Theory of Planned Behaviors are commonly used as the basis of these factors. Direction of future studies is discussed.
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spelling uthm-56082022-01-17T02:07:01Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5608/ Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review Abdullah, Nor Hazana Mokhtar, Ikram Shah Wahab, Eta Shamsuddin, Alina Abdul Hamid, Nor aziati L Education (General) LB2300-2430 Higher education Attainment of the Malaysian Education Blueprint depends on effective training strategies and continuous professional development among academicians. In retrospect, the effectiveness of these programs depends on the degree of participation of employees’ and hence, reflects in the quality of Malaysian Higher Education system. Preliminary interviews conducted with several public universities’ training officers highlighted that low training participation as one of the most pressing challenges. There is lack of motivation among academicians to participate in training programs since they are not properly linked with vital human resources functions such as successive planning, promotion and annual performance appraisal. Since training programs are costly investment, participation to completion is therefore a precondition for such investment to be worthy. This paper presents a systematic review of existing training participation literatures to establish the empirical gaps and gain in-depth understanding on factors affecting training participation. Our reviews indicate that factors affecting training participation could be grouped into several recurring themes which are training-related factors, individual-related factors and organizational-related factors and job-related factors. Learning theories, training models, Theory of Human Capital and Theory of Planned Behaviors are commonly used as the basis of these factors. Direction of future studies is discussed. American Scientific Publishers 2018 Article PeerReviewed Abdullah, Nor Hazana and Mokhtar, Ikram Shah and Wahab, Eta and Shamsuddin, Alina and Abdul Hamid, Nor aziati (2018) Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review. Advanced Science Letters, 24 (6). pp. 4720-4725. ISSN 1936-6612
spellingShingle L Education (General)
LB2300-2430 Higher education
Abdullah, Nor Hazana
Mokhtar, Ikram Shah
Wahab, Eta
Shamsuddin, Alina
Abdul Hamid, Nor aziati
Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
title Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
title_full Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
title_fullStr Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
title_full_unstemmed Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
title_short Training participation among Malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
title_sort training participation among malaysian higher learning institutions’ academia: a systematic review
topic L Education (General)
LB2300-2430 Higher education
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5608/