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Personality Traits and Training Initiation Process: Intention, Planning, and Action Initiation

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Title
Personality Traits and Training Initiation Process: Intention, Planning, and Action Initiation
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Frontiers in Psychology, November 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01767
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Mariola Laguna, Ewelina Purc

Abstract

The article aims at investigating the role of personality traits in relation to training initiation. Training initiation is conceptualized as a goal realization process, and explained using goal theories. There are three stages of the process analyzed: intention to undertake training, plan formulation, and actual training undertaking. Two studies tested the relationships between five personality traits, defined according to the five factor model, and the stages of the goal realization process. In Study 1, which explains training intention and training plans' formulation, 155 employees participated. In Study 2, which was time-lagged with two measurement points, and which explains intention, plans, and training actions undertaken, the data from 176 employees was collected at 3 month intervals. The results of these studies show that personality traits, mainly openness to experience, predict the training initiation process to some degree: intention, plans, and actual action initiation. The findings allow us to provide recommendations for practitioners responsible for human resource development. The assessment of openness to experience in employees helps predict their motivation to participate in training activities. To increase training motivation it is vital to strengthen intentions to undertake training, and to encourage training action planning.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 6 16%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Researcher 5 14%
Student > Master 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 5%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 12 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 8 22%
Psychology 7 19%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 13 35%
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