Employees’ Attitudes toward Continuing Professional Education: Their Relationship between Reasons and Barriers to Participation

The attitudes of employees toward education are considered a determining factor for their participation or non-participation in Continuing Professional Education (CPE). The examination of the attitudes in combination with reasons, barriers and general characteristics of employees can be a strong predictor of participation. The present article examines employees’ attitudes toward continuing professional education as well as their relationship between reasons that motivate them, barriers that prevent them from participating in Continuing Professional Education programs, and their general characteristics. The results showed that the majority of employees are positively inclined toward CPE programs. In addition, there is a relationship between attitudes, factors of reasons for participation, categories of barriers and four variables of general characteristics: gender, educational level, previous participation and the number of programs attended.