In order to make effects on educational training programs for SME's employees as investment, not as
cost, we should apply the acquired knowledge, technology and attitudes to business practice. Therefore, we
can make a conclusion that how to apply the acquired learning achievements to practical affairs of SME's
employees is critical to make their companies successful and competitive. On the basis of successful
applications of the educational training program's outputs, SMEs and the nation can make further progresses
in the future.
Considering this situation, this study examined and analyzed the results of educational training program's
characteristics on learning transfer performance and the moderating effects of self-efficacy aimed at the
employees of SMEs located in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do.
Firstly, in the relationship between the characteristics of educational training programs(job relativeness,
characteristics of educators and goal setting) and learning-transfer, the hypothesis that the job relativeness
and goal setting would have positive effects on the learning transfer achievements was supported, whereas
the hypothesis that the characteristics of educators would have positive effects on the learning-transfer
performance was not supported in this study.
Secondly, in the relationship between the characteristics of educational training programs(job relativeness,
characteristics of educators and goal setting) and self-efficacy(confidence, self-control ability), some
hypotheses were statistically meaningful. But, some of them were not supported statistically. In sum, we
can make a conclusion that the hypotheses were supported in part.
Though this study shows the implication mentioned above, it has several regrets and limits. Firstly, there
exists some limitation in the generalization of the study results as the subjects of this study are limited
only to the employees of the SMEs located in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do. Secondly, because all of
the variables set up in this study were drawn up as the self-evaluation data of the questionnaire
respondents, it was likely that the data were highly affected by individuals' values based on the subjective
judgment of the learners. Finally, there is also some limitation that the single-source error can occur by
applying all the variables such as independent variables, dependent variables, control variables, etc. to all of
the respondents through one questionnaire. As the single-source error is a problematic issue frequently
pointed out, it seems a very important task to design survey methods which can minimize this problem in
future studies.