Organizational Culture Effect in the Relationship between Training Development and Academic Perdormance in The Public Iraqi Universities

Academic performance is a critical issue for organizations, especially in the education sector. The current situation of the Iraqi educational system and the historical, political, religious, and cultural factors that have influenced teaching and learning in Iraq. The Iraqi academic staff in Iraqi universities must establish a collaborative and cooperative endeavor for a reformation of the Iraqi educational system. This envision of a new educational system that would be based on learning and training approaches that cultivate academic staff critical thinking skills. It undermines the efficiency and productivity of the organization. There is a need of looking at factors that affect this behavior of the workforce. Therefore, this study focuses on the relationship of training and development variables which are Perceived availability of training, Motivation to learn from training and individual characteristic with organization culture and employee performance in academic settings. This study also determines whether organization culture mediates the relationship between training and development and employee performance. To have empirical evidence about these relationships, data will be collected from academic staff employed at public sector universities of Iraq using a self-administered questionnaire. The collected data will be analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Confirmatory factor analysis using Social Science Statistics Package (SPSS) version 23.0 to measure the relationship between variables and to test the hypotheses related to the study. This study contributes to body of knowledge by investigating the relationship of training development with workplace attitudes incorporating constructs of training and development, organization culture effect and employee performance using one comprehensive research framework. This study will give an enhancement to the policy makers in higher education sector about the availability of training and development opportunities which affect the performance of academic staff and in turn affect the effectiveness of universities as well.