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Hc: Employee creativity mediates the
relationship between T & D effectiveness
and employee performance

4 DATA ANALYSIS

According to the descriptive analysis,
sample consists with 39.64% of male
respondents and 60.39% of female
respondents while their age is ranged in 19
years to 51 years and middle aged
employees (28 years old) hold the majority
of the sample. Majority of the respondents
Figure 1: Conceptual framework are married and it accounts for 53.15%
while unmarried percentage is 46.85%.
The questionnaaire items were adapted
from past literature.The results of the 4.1 Factor Analysis
reliability test is shown in Table 1.
The factor analysis was done on three
Table 1: Results of reliability analysis constructs (Employee motivation, Employee
creativity and Affective) with the aim of
No Cronbach’s identifying the best items. Principal
Variable of alpha component analysis was undertaken and
items Value Bartlett’s test of sphericity and the Kaiser-
Employee 5 .77 Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy
Performance were used to conclude whether factor
Employee 7 .84 analysis procedure was applicable (Williams
Motivation et al., 2010). Three constructs have two
Employee 6 .63 components while one item of the variable
Creativity employee motivation was dropped due to
Affective 5 .64 lower Varimax rotation value (<.5).
Behavioral 5 .76 4.2 Correlation Analysis
According to the results all the The correlation analysis is performed
questionnaire items are reliable to and bivariate test of association is
administrate. undertaken in order to identify the degree of
Based on the theory, following association of the variables. Pearson
hypotheses were developed. correlation is suggested as the appropriate
measure of relationship between two
Ha: Training and development effectiveness variables. Table 2 shows the results of the
has a positive effect on employee correlation analysis.
performance
4.3 Regression Analysis
Ha1: Employee cognitive behavior has a
positive effect on employee performance The multiple regression analysis was
performed in order to identify the impact of
Ha2: Employee affective behavior has a independent variables on the dependent
positive effect on employee performance variable and a summary of the results is

Ha3: Employee behavior has a positive shown in Table 3. As per the results, 67% of
effect on employee performance the variation in employee performance can
be explained by employee performance.
Hb: Employee motivation mediates the Also, hypothesis Ha3 is supported while
relationship between T & D effectiveness Ha1 & Ha2 are not supported.
and employee performance

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