Factors affecting overseas training in Libyan oil companies

Ibrahem, FEA

Abstract

Training initiatives are a world-wide phenomena, particularly in developing countries
which have been using overseas training as a part of their overall development strategy.
However, although there is substantial literature regarding training practices globally.
there is no comprehensive framework that embraces all the factors affecting training
that is conducted abroad. This research is aimed at developing such a frame\vork, using
Libya as a precise case that will allow for the identification of the key factors affecting
overseas training, and will further permit some generalisation to other developing
countries.
The research is qualitative in nature, employing a case study approach and using semistructured
interviews as the main data collection tool within two Libyan oil companies.
Several tools are used in order to achieve triangulation, to fully understand the overseas
training practices in the two case organisations, and to establish the factors affecting the
overseas training. This approach allowed revisions to be made to the theoretical
framework derived from the literature by the author, resulting in a specific model of
relevance to overseas training.
Contributions to knowledge on both academic and practical levels are evident by the
study, which represents the first attempt to empirically investigate overseas training
activities in Libyan Oil Companies. The original contribution of the research is the
developed framework. Other novel contributions of the study are the identification of
several new factors that could affect overseas training programmes, and the addition of
new knowledge that both supports and contradicts the existing literature about training.
Moreover, the study has attempted to address the problems raised when applying the
recommendations in the literature to a cultural context other than that on which the
literature was based. Practically, the study has implications for both managers and
practitioners, such as the preparation of trainees before sending them abroad,
monitoring trainees during overseas training, difficulties encountered by trainees
abroad, especially in western countries, the evaluation of overseas training, and the
importance of incentives and reward when managing overseas training. The framework
developed in the study presents the critical elements and factors that can enhance and
jeopardise the success of overseas training.

Citation

Ibrahem, F. Factors affecting overseas training in Libyan oil companies. (Thesis). University of Salford

• Thesis Type: Thesis
• Deposit Date: Jul 13, 2017
• Publisher URL: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490265
• Related Public URLs: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490265
• Award Date: Jan 1, 2007