A Study on the Effects of Training Transfer Variables and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Effects of Transfer
Authors:   Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction, Cho Young-Sil 
Published: January 2025

Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of agricultural professionals’ training transfer variables and job satisfaction in the workplace. In order to achieve this, the following problems were addressed: First, what is the relationship between the training transfer variables and job satisfaction in the workplace of agricultural professionals? Second, what is the relationship between the training transfer variable and training transfer in the workplace of agricultural professionals? Third, what is the mediating effects of training transfer between the training transfer variable and job satisfaction in the workplace of agricultural professionals?
Methods For this study, 3 months after participants returned to work, 490 questionnaires were distributed to agricultural professionals participating in job training program of Agricultural Human Resources Development Center for March in 2019 to November in 2020. Participants were limited to those who participated in programs suitable for grasping transfer of training. Out of 490, 454 questionnaires were analyzed. Regression analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between agricultural professionals’ training transfer variables and job satisfaction.
Results First, there was the relationship between the training transfer and job satisfaction. Among the training transfer characteristics, Self-efficacy, learning transfer motivation, job-related, learning transfer design, supervisor support and peer support had positive impacts on job satisfaction. Second, there was the relationship between the training transfer variables and training transfer. Among the training transfer characteristics, Self-efficacy, learning transfer motivation, job-related and peer support had positive impacts on training transfer. Third, there was the mediating effects of training transfer between the training transfer variable and job satisfaction. There was a partial mediating effects in the relationship between Self-efficacy, job-related, supervisor support, peer support, and job satisfaction. There was a full mediating effects in the relationship between learning transfer motivation, learning transfer design, and job satisfaction.
Conclusions in order for agricultural professionals to increase job satisfaction it is necessary to establish strategies to improve self-efficacy and transfer motivation, design educational content that is highly relevant to the job, and increase the transfer climate of supervisor support and peer support that actively encourages the use of knowledge, skills, and attitudes learned through education and training when returning to work after the end of education. In addition, in order to increase job application, corporate support strategies such as personal efforts to improve self-efficacy and transfer motivation and providing successful learning experiences to maintain faith and confidence in learners themselves are required, and teaching methods to help learning transfer through educational content, various field cases, teaching plans, and teaching tools that are directly related to work. In particular, it can be seen that transfer motivation, which is a desire and effort to use educational content and actual learning as actions that are designed to be applied and utilized at the job site, has an educational effect of improving job satisfaction through job application that directly applies actual learned knowledge, skills, and attitudes to the job.