Author(s): Thoraya Mohamed AL-Mottahar, Faizuniah Bt Pangil
This study aims to apply the moderator effect of ‘transfer climate’ to enhance ‘transfer of training’ with the application of the AMO theory. It highlights the relationship among the training transfer and various factors discussed in the theories and frameworks of previous research. However, the published results have some inconsistencies regarding the transfer climate effect (as a moderator) on training transfer. Thus, opening new opportunities to conduct further research. Therefore, this paper focuses on the relationship among the factors of the AMO theory (ability, motivation and opportunity) and transfer of training. The transfer climate is the moderator variable. Smart PLS 3.0 software was used, and the framework includes transfer climate, self-efficacy, opportunity to transfer and motivation to transfer. The respondents are employees working in the Yemen Public Telecom Sector (YPTS), with a sample size of 351 employees. The findings of the study showed that opportunity to transfer and self-efficacy are significant factors that have a direct relationship with training transfer. Motivation to transfer was insignificant and has a negative direct relationship with transfer of training. The transfer climate was also tested and found to have an indirect relationship on the suggested framework. The statistical results reveal that only opportunity to transfer and transfer climate have a significant influence on training transfer. In contrast, the transfer climate, as a moderator, has no impact on motivation to transfer and self-efficacy with training transfer.