Exploring employee training programmes for organizational commitment and prosocial organizational behavior

Employee training programmes are crucial for the success of any organization. This study attempts to understand the role of employee training programmes on organizational commitment and prosocial organizational behaviors in Libyan oil sector, specifically in Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO). Despite the current security and economic crisis in Libya, AGOCO continues to provide training opportunities to its employees both locally and overseas (inside and outside Libya). Therefore, an empirical research was conducted with the employees of AGOCO based on the main purpose of the study. Data of the study was collected from these employees by utilizing questionnaire technique. Employee training programmes were evaluated in this study in terms of motivation for training, benefits of training and support for training. In accordance with the literature, affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment were accepted as dimensions of organizational commitment. However, prosocial organizational behavior, role-prescribed prosocial behavior and prosocial individual behavior were accepted as dimensions of prosocial organizational behavior. In order to test the hypotheses of the study correlation analysis and regression analysis were utilized. Findings revealed that motivation for training, benefits of training and support for training have significantly positive effects on organizational commitment (affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment) and prosocial organizational behaviors (prosocial organizational behavior, role-prescribed prosocial behavior and prosocial individual behavior). Thus, all the hypotheses of the study were supported. According to the findings of the study, companies of Libyan oil sector and other sectors give the full treatment to employee training programmes to ensure their employees remain committed to the organization and show prosocial organizational behaviors.