期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：10
页码：1054-1065
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i10/8267
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：This paper presents the evaluation on the face and content validity of a Soft Skills Transfer of Training Instrument. This is a newly developed instrument with an aim to assess the influencing factors of soft skills application back into the workplace after training amongst clerical employees in a Malaysian context. The instrument comprises of 85 items with twelve constructs: personal efficacy; intention; motivation; expectations; training contents; delivery; awareness; interventions; superior’s support; trainer’s quality; workplace; and climate. The constructs were derived from Baldwin and Ford’s Transfer of Training Model (1988), Burke & Hutchins’ Model of Transfer (2008), and Holton’s HRD Evaluation Research and Measurement Model (1996). The evaluation was based on the opinions of five experts from academia and training industry background. Each item was evaluated to ensure its relevance to the study and rated based on a dichotomous rating of agree or disagree. The ratings were used to calculate the extent of agreement between raters using Kappa Index (Kappa) and Content Validity Index (CVI). As this study involved multiple raters, Fleiss’ Kappa Index (FKI) was applied. The calculation yielded that the inter-rater agreement was 0.76 (FKI) while the proportion agreement was 0.96 (CVI). Items with at least a CVI of 0.80 were included in the final instrument. This evaluation confirmed and supported that the face and content validity of the items on the instrument could be used to assess the influencing factors of soft skills training transfer and ready for a pilot study.
