Abstract
The current study recognizes the change in the learning landscape of training classrooms, in the context of Pakistani workplaces,
particularly in the banks operated in the southern part of the province Punjab. This has mainly resulted from an increase in
generational diversity and varying learning preferences of the trainees. Accordingly, the primary objective of the study is to explore
whether there is an association of Pakistani generation X and Pakistani generation Y with particular learning styles and training
methods preferences which distinct them from each other at the workplace, particularly when they are occupied as the trainees. In
order to fulfill this purpose, a sample of 272 employees participated to fill a questionnaire survey. This enabled the study to collect
the data regarding the participants’ demographic information and their preferred mode of delivery. Moreover, the questionnaire
incorporated Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory 3.1 (LSI) to gather the information about the trainees’ intrinsic learning styles
preferences. The responses of the participants were entered into SPSS for assessing the relationship among the proposed variables
of the study through the Chi-square test of independence. The findings regarding trainees’ learning style preferences portrayed that
the Pakistani Generation X learners are intrinsically assimilators while Generation Y learners are accommodators. In addition, while
Generation X learners preferred to learn through the traditional lecture-based instruction method, the Pakistani Generation Y learners
turned out to be more receptive to role-play based instruction method. Therefore, the findings of this study distinctively represented
the learning preferences of the Pakistani Generation X and Generation Y trainees, which, in turn, contribute to the understanding of
specific learning profiles of these two generations. Furthermore, the results of the study endorse that the generational affiliation of
the respondents is itself descriptive of their individual learning styles and training methods preferences. However, the interaction
effect among the training methods and learning styles is found to be insignificant, since the learners with different preferences for
the learning styles altogether resisted the idea of case study and e-learning training methods in the banks. Thus, the study produced
important implications regarding the customization of the development of training design and delivery methods at the banks of
Pakistan in accordance with the learning preferences of the two Pakistani generations, X and Y.
Aliya Ahmad Shaikh, Warda Najeeb Jamal. (2020) Exploring the Diversity in Learning Style(s) and Training method(s) Preferences of the Pakistani Generation X and Generation Y Trainees, Paradigms , Vol 14, Issue 1.
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