THE ATTITUDES OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES ?TOWARDS USING PODCASTING AS AN INNOVATIVE ASYNCHRONOUS TRAINING ?AND DEVELOPING TOOL
Published 08/25/2017
Keywords
- Human Capital,
- International Companies,
- Podcasting,
- â??developing tool. â?? â??
How to Cite
Abstract
Although many studies discussed podcasting benefits from different areas like ( Lee & Chan, 2007?; ? Evans, 2008; Kennedy et al., 2011?)? no one discussed the attitudes of Human Capital ?towards Using it as an ?Innovative Asynchronous training ?and developing ?tool. ? so this ?paper aims to investigate these attitudes.? In order to do so, The researcher investigated a field study taking a sample participants of 120 workers from the ?studied companies and gave them a five-point Likert scale? questionnaire about their attitudes towards Using Podcasting in training. The data were analyzed using SPSS. It was found that ? participants ?had a very positive attitude toward podcasts and had very high motivation to develop their skills with the help of podcasts.
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