The role of the supervisor support in the relationship between training and organizational and individual performance

Education and development activity in organizations as a human resources management function is an important investment area. Through training and development, organizations carry out a number of planned activities to enhance the know-how and skills of an organization and its employees. Additionally, organizations are in expectation for determining how investment in training help to contribute to organizations and determining its return. To measure how much the effectiveness of training and development activities contibute to performance is a significant need. Based on this, the aim of this study is to investigate the moderator role of the supervisor effort in the relationship between systematically and effectively practiced training and organizational and individual performance. In the literature, there are studies on the effect of training on organizational and individual performance through measurement of the effectiveness of training. Although the role of supervisors on the success of training is often theoretically discussed in these studies, there is no empirical study on this context. In other words, the role of supervisors in transforming training effectiveness into organizational and individual performance draws attention as a resarch topic lacks of empirical evidence. In this sense, a quantitative research was conducted by using survey technique on 142 people. As a result of the research, while a positive relationship between the implementation of training and the individual and organizational performance was found, also it was empirically proved that supervisor support plays a mediatör role in the relationship between those aforementioned variables.