Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors which determine the employees'
participation in training programs in one of the Tea Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka.
Even though non-managerial level employees in the aforesaid company have requested
several training programs from their supervisors semi-annually, they are reluctant to
participate in those programs. Hence, this research is conducted as an exploratory field
study which is cross-sectional, intending to explore the determinants of training motivation
of employees in the selected company. Unit of analysis of the study is at the individual level;
individual non-managerial employees. Researcher administered a standard questionnaire to
collect primary data from a sample of 83 non-managerial employees where convenience
sampling was used to select the sample. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted to
find out the significant determinants of training motivation. Moreover, factor loading values
and cumulative percentage of extraction sums of squared loading values were used to draw
the conclusion. It is found that self-efficacy, training reputation and job benefit are the
significant training motivators for non-managerial employees in the selected company while
supervisory support and the financial sponsorship were found to be insignificant motivators.
Hence, it is recommended for practicing manager and Human Resource (HR) professionals
in the selected domain to design training programs which will improve the efficacy and the
reputation of the participant, and especially, to deliver transferable skills in designing future
training programs.
