Author(s)

Hassan Rasool¹, Fuwad Bashir²,   Rauf-i-Azam³, Zafar Moeen Nasir⁴

¹Department of Management Science, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan.
²MaxFoster Global, Islamabad, Pakistan.
³Education University, Lahore, Pakistan.
⁴American University, Dubai, UAE.

The effect of goal orientation on training motivation and training outcomes is measured from a sample of 216 employees. The empirical evidence confirms that state goal orientation is a three dimensional construct (performance, learning and refusal) and it predicts training motivation and training outcomes. It establishes that training programs in organizations have learning and less explored “non-learning” outcomes. And training motivation mediates the relationship between goal orientation and both outcomes. Implications of these new insights for academicians and practitioners are discussed.

Goal Orientation, Training Motivation, Training Outcomes

Rasool, H. , Bashir, F. , Rauf-i-Azam, &. and Nasir, Z. (2015) The Other Side of Goal Orientation and Training Outcomes: Mediating Role of Training Motivation. Journal of Service Science and Management, 8, 726-740. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2015.85074.