The Relationship Between Employee Perception of Facilitating Knowledge Retention and Learning Transfer

摘要

Knowledge retention and learning transfer are important to organizations. The topics of knowledge retention and learning transfer are consistently researched individually. However, there is a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between employee perception of facilitating knowledge retention learning transfer. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between employee perception of facilitating knowledge retention and employee perception of learning transfer. A quantitative methodology was used to examine knowledge retention and learning transfer from the employee perception. The Learning Transfer System Inventory ([LTSI]), (Bates, Holton, & Hatala, "A Revised Learning Transfer System Inventory: Factorial Replication and Validation", 2012) was the instrument used to measure the employee perception. Current employees of the Middle Atlantic government who were members of a selected professional association and have attended at least one training program offered by the government were the targeted population. Findings of the study support that a transfer design had a high correlation with the opportunity to use and perceived content validity. The lowest correlation was the opportunity to use and personal capacity for transfer. Based on the statistical data, there is a significant relationship between environmental and motivational factors and employee perception of learning transfer and facilitating knowledge retention; and there is no relationship between individual factors and employee perception of learning transfer and facilitating knowledge retention. This study is important, as it may be a valuable addition to the existing body of knowledge in the field of human resource management, by contributing new or additional knowledge on facilitating knowledge retention and learning transfer. The study is also valuable to the field of business by providing relevant information that will allow organizations to develop effective training programs that will equip employees with the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to contribute to the success of the organization.