effects of at-work trainings on the skills of managers (case study of islamic azad university)

the purpose of the present research is to study the effect of at-work trainings on managers’ skills. in this research, manager’s training is considered as independent variable. it is operative by sub index conceptual, human and technical skills but called as dependent variable in robert katz’s theory. the method used here is experimental done by a pretest-posttest group. the statistical population contains all managers working in 8th and 12th regions of islamic azad university. the method of sampling is disposal sample participating in managers’ skills training workshops. the measurement instrument is a pretest and posttest questionnaire. to analyze data, descriptive and inferential statistics including tests of kolmogro-smirnov, and sign and ranking test of friedman and so spss software are applied. also, a deductive and descriptive statistics method is used to analyze the inputs. the results of analyzing the data represent that, at-work training will promote conceptual, human and technical skills of the managers in islamic azad university. but, effectiveness sequence of skills caused by at-work trainings is different from robert kats theory. in robert kats theory, training increases technical skill more than the others. whereas, in this research, it is clear that at-work trainings firstly empower human skills and secondly technical skills and then conceptual skills.