Browsing by Author "Rahman, Asif Ali"

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Agendas for future Training Transfer Research: Pakistan’s Perspective
(IISTE, 2019-04-30) Rahman, Asif Ali; Shiddike, Mohammad Omar
Research on training transfer has been mostly conducted in developed countries. This paper is unique because it attempts to research training transfer from a developing country’s perspective. This paper is about the origins, evolution, current state and trends in training transfer research and practice in Pakistani organizations. The paper begins with a discussion on education and training. It discusses the evolution of education and training in Pakistan and explains the four systems of education in Pakistan at the primary, high school, and college levels. Then, this paper explores the origins of training in Pakistan. While exploring the origins of training in Pakistan, this section gives a detailed account on the training and consulting industry of Pakistan. The paper concludes with suggestions for further research that would contribute in the fields of training transfer and human resource development.
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Case Study Method in Human Resource Development: Reviewing the Research Literature
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2020-03-26) Shiddike, Mohammad Omar; Rahman, Asif Ali
This paper is written with a novice social science (management, education, public administration, public policy, and human resource development etc.) researcher in mind at the graduate or doctoral level. A case study research design has been made in this paper for a human resource development (HRD) project after extensively reviewing the research literature. This paper is useful for researchers who are looking for a case study research design plan based on a real-world example that can be adapted to their specific research. The paper is based on a research titled, “Faculty Engagement in Professional Development: A Bangladesh Case Study”. It explains a rationale for the use of case study method in an HRD project, followed by the research questions, the research methods and procedures. The paper also debates on sampling issues, data types, research instruments, data organization and cleaning, data analysis using and issues of validity and reliability. The paper concludes with a discussion on limitations and delimitations.
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Engaging Faculty in Professional Development: Lessons From Bangladesh
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2019-09-23) Shiddike, Mohammad Omar; Rahman, Asif Ali
Engagement can be defined as participation, involvement, and commitment (Harper & Quaye, 2015). This paper explains faculty engagement in professional development. Faculty engagement in professional development can be defined as faculty participation and involvement in formal and informal learning activities. These formal and informal activities focus on professionalism that might include exercises leading to the development of knowledge, skills, abilities, values, and self-awareness. Some examples of these formal and informal learning activities are classroom teaching, curriculum and instruction development, training, consulting, faculty/student interactions, workshops/conferences, and academic publications etc. Faculty engagement in professional development incorporates the total sum of formal and informal learning or continuous learning throughout one’s career (Broad & Evans, 2006; Capps, Crawford, & Constas, 2012). Since professional development includes faculty engagement, the paper explores how university faculty professionally develop themselves through engagement.
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Exploring Contextual Factors and Trainee Characteristics: A Mixed Methods Study on Transfer of Training
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-07) Rahman, Asif Ali; Bockarie, Abu; Triggs, Valerie; Nkongolo-Bakenda, Jean-Marie; Xu, Gong-Li
Developing strategies for the successful transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes from a training and development program to the workplace remains a key challenge facing organizations, including those operating in developing countries such as Pakistan. Studies have found that in general employees transfer less than 10% of the training they acquire to their workplaces (Georgenson, 1982; Kelly, 1982; McGuire, 2014). McGuire argues that one of the reasons for the low rate of transfer of training relates to the isolated and peripheral nature of the training function and the fact that transfer of training is not built into the training program. Eraut (2004) argues that research on transfer of training might be particularly difficult because of the differences in context, culture and modes of training. Although some research relating to the transfer problem in organizations do exist in developed countries, there appears to be a paucity of such research in developing counties such as Pakistan; and thus, the rationale for the study. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate the degree to which the media industry in Pakistan delivered training programs that facilitated the transfer of training before, during and after training and the way the relationship among these three activities influenced transfer of training in the industry. The study drew on the work of Baldwin and Ford (1988) who defined transfer of training as the application of knowledge, skills and attitudes learned from training on the job and subsequent maintenance of them over a period of time. Two bodies of literature were reviewed for the study. They were the framework of the transfer process by Baldwin and Ford as well as by Holton, and the theories that support training transfer in organizations. iv Using a convergent mixed methods design, the study utilized a survey questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with the 16 employees of eight media organizations in Lahore, Pakistan. 200 survey questionnaires were distributed among the employees of the eight media organizations and the response rate was 50.5%. The survey questionnaire sought to explore the trainee characteristics and contextual factors that influenced transfer of training before, during and after training as well as the participants’ suggestions to foster transfer of training. The findings revealed that trainee characteristics as well as contextual factors positively or negatively influenced training transfer before, during and after training. Eleven themes emerged from participants' interviews, and they generally reinforced the survey findings. It was the conclusion of the study that in addition to trainee characteristics and contextual factors, productive networking among trainees before, during and after training was a critical factor in the successful transfer of training in the studied organizations. The study concludes with some discussion of the implications of the findings for policy, practice and training transfer theory development. The recommendations arising from the findings and suggestions for further research are also presented.
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Mixed Methods in Human Resource Development: Reviewing the Research Literature
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2020) Rahman, Asif Ali; Shiddike, Mohammad Omar
This paper is written with a novice social sciences researcher (management, education, public administration, public policy, and human resource development etc.) in mind at the graduate or doctoral level. A mixed methods research design has been made in this paper for a human resource development (HRD) project after extensively reviewing the research literature. This paper is useful for researchers who are looking for a mixed methods research design plan based on a real-world example that can be adapted to their specific research. The paper is based on a research titled, “Transfer of Training: A mixed methods research”. It explains a rationale for the use of mixed methods in an HRD project, followed by the research questions, the research methods and procedures. The paper also debates on sampling and data integration issues, data types, research instruments, data organization and cleaning, data analysis using software such as SPSS and NVIVO and issues of validity and reliability. The paper concludes with a discussion on limitations and delimitations.
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Tracing the Evolution of Transfer of Training: A Review Article
(Juniper Publishers, 2020-07-07) Rahman, Asif Ali
This article presents an evolution of transfer of training from 1901 to 2020. The discussion about transfer of training begins with a brief introduction to the framework about the transfer process, followed by the literature review on transfer of training. For the purpose of simplicity, the literature review is broadly discussed based on three eras of research: 1901 to 1988, 1988 to 2008, and 2008 to 2020. During the entire discussion, the results of the research conducted in the three eras are compared and the changing research trends from 1901 to 2020 are discussed.