Needs Assignment
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 5 and worth 175 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealerships training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!!
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and sentence outline for this paper only.)
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them.
The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee willingness to participate. The most common are time to conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention the others briefly as supporting information.
3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field.
Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this industry. Is your process a standard practice?
4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop training without understanding the training needs and why it is important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting time and money, in addition to not solving the problem. Remember you are training the sales force but the training may not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or low morale. This is what your consulting company has been hired to find out.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points.
Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other types of needs assessment processes. If you use one of those models make sure you identify the model. You can use the reference you cited in your post for this paper. Refer to pages 113 -130 to design your outline.
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Points: 125 |
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment |
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Criteria |
Unacceptable Below 70% F |
Fair 70-79% C |
Proficient 80-89% B |
Exemplary 90-100% A |
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1. Prepare in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. Weight: 20%
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Did not submit or incompletely prepared in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. |
Partially submitted in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. |
Satisfactorily submitted prepared in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. |
Thoroughly submitted prepared in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. |
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2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them. Weight: 25% |
Did not submit or incompletely identified two (2) possible impediments to this approach and did not submit or incompletely discussed how you will overcome them. |
Partially identified two (2) possible impediments to this approach and partially discussed how you will overcome them. |
Satisfactorily identified two (2) possible impediments to this approach and satisfactorily discussed how you will overcome them. |
Thoroughly identified two (2) possible impediments to this approach and thoroughly discussed how you will overcome them. |
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3. 3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field. Weight: 20% |
Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field. |
Partially evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field. |
Satisfactorily evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field. |
Thoroughly evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field. |
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4. 4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver. 5. Weight: 20%
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6. Did not submit or incompletely explained why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver. |
Partially explained why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver. |
Satisfactorily explained why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver. |
Thoroughly explained why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver. |
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5. 2 references Weight: 5% |
No references provided |
Does not meet the required number of references; some or all references poor quality choices. |
Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
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6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10% |
More than 6 errors present |
5-6 errors present |
3-4 errors present |
0-2 errors present |