“Why would I go?”: Application of the theory of planned behavior in motivation to learn from diversity training

• Autor(a) principal: Moretto, Caio Fernando
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23748
• topic: Diversidade -- Diversity; Theory of planned behavior; Diversity training; Motivation to learn; Teoria do comportamento planeado; Formação em diversidade; Motivação para aprender

Due to diversity increasing in the workplace, companies have been trying different structures of Diversity Programs to create inclusive environments. An important part of those programs is the Diversity Training, but it is still not clear how to engage and motivate employees to participate in training sessions. In that way, to contribute with current literature, this study aimed to examining the employees’ motivation to learn from a Diversity Training, using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Focused in inquire employees of Portuguese organization (N=219) levels of attitudes toward attending diversity training, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control and if those factors could predict motivation to learn from Diversity Training. To access those factors, the authors created a questionnaire, based in Wiethoff (2004). The results showed that all the studied factors scores are positively related to motivations to learn from diversity training scores. Besides that, through Structural Equation Modeling, we could confirm a good model fit between the model and the results, which is important, being this work the model’s first empirical study. It also demonstrated that when all factors interact and are analyzed together attending to TPB, attitudes and subjective norms have even a stronger predictive power in employees’ motivation to learn from Diversity Training. Those findings had important implications, mainly to provide information to organizations that desire to design more focused Diversity Programs.