Training needs assessment

Training needs assessment

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Training Needs Assessment
by A. Vinay Teja

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Training :
Training is the act of increasing
knowledge and skills of an employee
for doing a particular job.
Training involves development of
skills that are usually used to perform
a specific job.
It should bring positive changes in
knowledge, skills, attitude.

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Why training needed for an Employee?
Training is important for an employee to
have following benefits
Quick learning
Higher productivity
Standardization of procedure
Supervision
Economical operation
Preparation of future managers
Better management

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Training needs assessment:
It is defined as determining gap between what an
employee must be able to do and what he or she or
is currently doing.
A training needs assessment therefore identifies the
gap between what the job expects an employee to
do, on the one hand, what the employee actually
doing, on other hand.

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How the job ought to be properly done

The Gap

How the employee is doing or can do the job now
Actual skills = Desired skills

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Why training needs assessment is
required:
Explores ways in which the competency, capability
and potential of organization can be enriched.
To obtain better outcomes with optimum utilization
of resources.
Helps to work on areas in which employees needs
skills development.

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Why training needs assessment is
required:
Analysis relationship between training and
performance.
Aligns organizational goals with training.
Enlists standards that need to be followed for ideal
competency levels.

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Components of training needs assessment:
Training needs
assessment
generally
Involves
Three
components
Organizational
analysis
Job analysis
Individual
analysis

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Organizational Analysis
1.Strategic Directions
2.Training Resources
3.Support of managers,
peers, employees of
training activity
Job Analysis
1.Performance
2.Job
3.Feedback
Individual Analysis
1.Work activity
2.Task analysis
3.Knowledge, skills and
Attitude require to
perform to job

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Steps involved in TNA:

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Methods of TNA:
Observation Questionnaires

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Methods of TNA:
Survey Focus Group

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Methods of TNA:
Interviews

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Benefits of training needs assessment:
Provides necessary information to participants.
Identifies employees problems and performance
problems.
Increase employee involvement.
Save time, money and resources.
Provide a means of measuring training
effectiveness.
Help estimate cost of training.

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