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...

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...

Purpose Among the gold standards in human resource development (HRD) research are studies that test theoretically developed hypotheses and use experimental designs. A somewhat typical experimental design would involve collecting pretest and posttest data on individuals assigned to a control or...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership (TL) and authentic leadership (AL) using a canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Design/methodology/approach – The sample was 427 knowledge workers from a Fortune Global 100 company in...