Purpose – The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of factors that affect training effectiveness. According to the literature, social support, perceived content validity, transfer design, the motivation to improve work through learning and positive transfer, contribute...

This study explored the ability of liking and two forms of rater‐ratee similarity to predict multi‐source proficiency ratings of managerial competencies. Findings from the regression model that included all raters indicated that technical proficiency, rater‐ratee liking, demographic and...

Purpose – The paper ' s aim is to report a research study on the mediator and outcome variable sets in scenario planning. Design/methodology/approach – This is a cannonical correlation analysis (CCA) Findings – Twso sets of variables; one as a predictor set that explained a significant...

Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue, “The Quest for Scientific Discipline in HRD Research: Designs that Support Causal Inference”. Design/methodology/approach This special issue presents seven papers that consider human resource development (HRD) research...