Training Motivation as a Mediating Variable in the Relationship Between Administrative Support and Job Motivation

The phenomenon of training motivation is considered quite remarkable. Recent studies have shown that training motivation affects administrative support and job motivation. This relationship is significant; nevertheless, the role of training motivation as an important mediating variable received little attention in the body of literature on organisational behaviour. This study investigates the relationship between administrative support, job motivation, and training motivation. This study employs a survey method to collect data from employees in Malaysia’s Federal Territory of Putrajaya and the SmartPLS programme to analyse the validity and reliability and hypotheses testing. The SmartPLS results show that the effect of training motivation on administrative support and job motivation in the organisational sample is mediated by training motivation. The study’s findings can help practitioners understand different paradigms of training motivation to formulate interactive training action plans to maintain and improve organisational sustainability.