A study on training need assessment

Abstract

Training Need Assessment is crucial factor for professionals. In our professional lives we need more knowledge and skills in addition to academic degrees. Academic qualification and backgrounds is not enough for today’s fast changing business environment. Moreover continuous development in terms of training, exposure visits and experiential learning are needed for professionals to be successful today. If an organization attempts to design suitable training for the professional of today; they need to understand what type of training is required by the industries and sectors dominant in the economy. Therefore Training Needs Assessment is the first stage of any training design process. This study illustrates training need assessment based on the primary and secondary data. Training can be described as “the acquisition of skills, concepts or attitudes that result in improved performance within the job environment”. Training needs analysis looks at each aspect of an operational domain so that the initial skills, concepts and attitudes of the human elements of a system can be effectively identified and appropriate training can be specified. Training helps to improve employee performance, consistency, employee satisfaction, increased productivity and adherence to quality standards, increased innovation for new strategies and products, enhances company reputation and personal profile. It helps to reduces gaps between professional skills and the skills required by the job and department. Therefore the purpose of this study to identify training programs which are most suitable for professionals’ in advance academic courses like Masters, MBA, EMBA etc. The data for this research work will be gathered from primary sources to elicit information from professional respondents. The primary data will be collected through a well structured questionnaire filled in by at least one hundred respondents. Secondary data will be composed from different research paper. This paper will focus on various aspects of Training Need Assessment like what type of professionals need training, in which sectors and functions professionals need more training, preferred duration, cost, time and location of professional training and also seek suggestions from them to better design training interventions for the prospective trainees. From this primary survey we would explore a proper idea about training needs for the various types of professionals.