The Influence Of Personal And Work Environment Characteristics On Staff Engagement In Informal Learning Activities At Private Universities In The Sultanate Of Oman

dc.contributor.authorAl-Araimi, Mubarak Ali Khamis
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-01T01:34:29Z
dc.date.available2019-04-01T01:34:29Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractThe objective of this study was to investigate the influence of personal and work environment factors on staff engagement in the informal learning at Omani private universities. A mixed method approach has been used to collect data from four selected private universities. The quantitative part consisted of questionnaire developed in Arabic and English languages. The data was gathered from 281 respondents to measure the personal and work environment factors’ influence on the staff’s engagement in informal learning activities. An inferential statistics were used to determine the influential effects. The results revealed that there are influences of different demographic aspects on staff engagement in informal learning and that that work environment and personal characteristics also influenced the employees’ level of engagement. On the other hand, the qualitative results revealed that staff uses different ways to learn informally to support their profession and to progress in their career. For instance, it was found that searching Internet is the most common learning activity used by the staff involved in this study. Furthermore, personal and work environmental characteristics have both positively or negatively impacted staff informal learning and their participation in their workplace activities. Practically, these results support the conclusions that in addition to their educational qualification, staff uses informal learning as a reliable way for progression in their career and that they tend to use knowledge and skills acquired from the engagement in informal learning to meet the desirable levels of work requirement as to progress in their careers, to cope with emerging problems and to prepare for their future profession.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7913
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectThe influence of personal and work environment factorsen_US
dc.subjectthe informal learning at Omani private universitiesen_US
dc.titleThe Influence Of Personal And Work Environment Characteristics On Staff Engagement In Informal Learning Activities At Private Universities In The Sultanate Of Omanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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