April 2012 Volume 15 Number 2 - Educational Technology & Society

The study was conducted in a non-contrived setting, thus it did not disrupt the normal routine work of the
organization. The method used to gather information in this research was through questionnaires composed of
measures taken directly or adapted from previous studies. The research was a cross sectional study. The primary data
collection method was used whereby a survey was conducted using questionnaires. The inclusion criterion of sample
selection is those employees who had prior experience in using e-training in the workplace.
Instrumentation
The constructs, concept definitions, items and sources of the instruments are depicted in Table 2.
Table 2. Conceptual construct definitions, items and sources
Construct Conceptual Definition Measures Source
Self-efficacy Individual’s judgment of their capabilities to use CSE1 Compeau & Higgins (1995);
computers in diverse situation
CSE2 Lim et al. (2007)
Motivation to Specific desire of the trainee to learn the content MOT1 Baldwin, Magjuka & Loher,
learn
of the training course
MOT2 1991; Martocchio &
Dulebohn, 1994
Ease of Use Degree to which a potential adopter considers EOU1 Davis (1989);
use of the target system to be relatively free of
effort
EOU2 Lee & Lee (2008)
Content of Is concerned with such issues as accuracy, COT1 Bailey & Pearson (1983)
Training timeliness, completeness, relevance and COT2
consistency of the information generated by an
information system
COT3
Management The aspect of work environment that reflects the MS1 Tracey et al. (1995, 2001)
Support extent to which supervisors and managers MS2
encourage on-the job learning, innovation, and
skill acquisition and provide recognition to
employees in support of these activities
MS3
Organization Policies, procedures, and practices that
OS1 Tracey et al. (1995, 2001)
Support demonstrate the importance of training and
development efforts, such as reward systems and
resources to acquire and apply learned skills
OS2
User
Affective state related to the information system SAT1 Spreng et al. (1996)
Satisfaction usage
SAT2
SAT3
Intention Intention to use the e-training system INT1
INT2
INT3
Davis et al. (1989)
Net Benefit Positive effect from the use of the system NET1
NET2
NET3
Torkzadeh & Doll (1999)
Result
Measures reliability and validity
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine the reliability and validity of the measures adopted from
the literature. The results are presented in Table 3. To measure the reliability of the measures we used the inter-item
consistency reliability value of Cronbach alpha. The values range from 0.756 to 0.954 which were above the
threshold of 0.7 as suggested by Nunnally and Bernstein (1994). Convergent validity that reflects the degree to which
multiple attempts to measure the same concept is in agreement, was also examined. As suggested by Hair et al.
(1998), factor loadings, composite reliability, and average variance extracted were utilized to assess convergent
validity. The loadings for all items exceeded the recommended value of 0.6 (Chin et al., 1997). Composite reliability
values, which depict the degree to which the construct indicators indicate the latent, construct range from 0.707 to
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