The interaction of situational factors on individual factors and self-development
European Journal of Training and Development
ISSN: 2046-9012
Article publication date: 27 February 2020
Issue publication date: 17 June 2020
Abstract
Purpose
Organizations are facing pressure to reduce costs of training and enhancing the role of self-development that is self-driven and contextual in nature as a means to supplement employee development. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of individual and situational factors on self-development as well as the moderating role of situational factors. Individual factors are referred to personal characteristics, i.e. learning goal orientation and proactive personality, while situational factors are environmental conditions, including job autonomy and empowering environment.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were gathered from 280 middle managers of the banking sector. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was conducted to validate the model.
Findings
The study findings revealed a significant direct relationship of individual (learning goal orientation and proactive personality) and situational (empowering environment and job autonomy) factors with self-development. The study also found only a significant moderating effect of empowering environment in relation to learning goal orientation and self-development, correspondingly job autonomy moderates the relationship of proactive personality and self-development.
Practical implications
The study concludes with offering some implication for organization to focus on self-development activities by providing an empowering environment and job autonomy to its employees, which will result to minimize the overall cost of training. Organizations should also identify the individual factors that lead to self-development like proactive personality and learning goal orientation.
Originality/value
This study gives new insight on the predictors of self-development and their interaction. This study may be a pioneer to empirically validate a theoretical model about the interaction of situational factors between individual factors and self-development. Furthermore, it contributes and advances our knowledge by demonstrating how individual and situational factors are influencing middle mangers’ self-development in workplace.
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Citation
Zia, M.Q., Naveed, M., Bashir, M.A. and Shamsi, A.F. (2020), "The interaction of situational factors on individual factors and self-development", European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 44 No. 4/5, pp. 509-530. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-10-2019-0172
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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