Training Needs Assessment: An ″Open‐systems″ Application

Abstract

Training needs assessments (TNAs) have become a popular and valuable tool in the human resource development profession. When properly designed and administered, a TNA will provide a detailed picture of an organization′s skill, knowledge and talent base while simultaneously focusing attention to areas where training programmes are most needed or, depending on the nature of the business, required. This, in turn, permits the organization to allocate funds for training and development where they will have the greatest impact thereby providing a positive return on the firm′s investment. Focuses on an open‐systems approach to designing and administering a TNA. As such the methodologies described within examine and illustrate a systematic and applications‐oriented process by presenting independent as well as interdependent methods of datagathering and analysis as a means of identifying and addressing training needs.

Citation

McClelland, S.B. (1993), "Training Needs Assessment: An ″Open‐systems″ Application", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 17 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090599310023691