Prospective Corporate Training Needs Analysis

This dissertation is focused on why and how to carry out the proactive needs assessment in corporation training programs.Human Performance Technology is nowadays exerting more and more influential effects on training in the HR management. The process of training needs analysis currently applied is mostly like this: Firstly, find out the existing performance gap; secondly, make performance analysis to determine the problem; thirdly, choose accordingly some suitable interventions, including training. But it can not be regarded as the optimized approach in a long-range and dynamic point of view. Since the guideline is to make analysis and decision based on the performance gaps that have been there, just like a patient goes to the doctor after the symptom has shown. Thus the treatment may to some extent be lagged, which would probably bring inefficiency to the organization's development. In this case, the solution comes to proaction. As the saying goes,'nip in the bud', the proactive approach tries to investigate the whole system and find out the possible or potential training needs in advance to the appearance of the bad performance.This thesis integrates and applies theories and approaches from the Human Performance Technology, Instructional Systerm Design, Human Resources Management, and etc. as the guiding fundamentals. The thesis tries to view the whole picture in a systemic, variational, and correlative way to find out the potential training needs from various angles like the society's development direction, the organization's strategic vision, and the employees'personal career planning. The purpose is to achieve the health-care for an organization and make it develop better.