Chapter 3 Needs Assessment: Person Analysis By Noe
1. HRMGT: 10
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
“PERSON ANALYSIS”
REFERENCE: EMPLOYEE TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT BY NOE
REPORTER: GIL DE BRANDO
2. PERSON ANALYSIS
Person analysis helps to identify
employees who need training, that is, whether
employees’ current performance or expected
performance indicates a need for training.
3. Poor or Substandard Performance
Customer complaints
Low Performance Ratings
On-the-Job Incidents
•Accidents
•Unsafe Behavior
Job Changes
New Technology
PERSON ANALYSIS
Major Pressure Points:
4. 1) Employees have the personal characteristics (Ability,
Attitudes, Beliefs and Motivation) necessary to learn
program content and apply it on the job.
2) The work environment will facilitate learning and not
interfere with performance.
PERSON ANALYSIS
Readiness for Training
refers to whether:
5. Process for Analyzing the Factors that Influence Employee Performance and Learning:
Person Characteristics
Knowledge, Skill, Ability and Attitudes
Input
What, How and When to Perform - - - Equipment, Time or budget
Output
Job Performance Standards
Consequences
PERSON ANALYSIS
Types of Incentives
Feedback
Information that the employee receive while they are performing
6. PERSON ANALYSIS
Interviews and Questionnaires:
- can be used to measure Person characteristics,
Input, Output, Consequences and Feedback.
Example:
“Lead Drivers in a Package Delivery Company”
7. • What types of situations call for coaching on your part?
• What keeps you from being a good coach on the job?
• How do you encourage or motivate other lead drivers? Do you use
incentives or rewards? Do you try other things (compliments, personal
attention?
• What common types of performance problems do new hires have?
• What were the biggest problems you encountered as a new coach and
trainer? Mistakes that you made? What lessons have you learned over
time?
• Tell me about a successful coaching experience and an unsuccessful
coaching experience.
PERSON ANALYSIS
Questions:
8. Trainee’s desire to learn the content of training programs.
Influences by:
Personal Characteristics
The Environment
PERSON ANALYSIS
Motivation to Learn:
9. Process for Analyzing the Factors that Influence Employee Performance and Learning:
1. Person Characteristics:
•Basic Skills
PERSON ANALYSIS
Verbal Comprehension
Quantitative Ability
Reasoning Ability
Verbal Comprehension
Quantitative Ability
Reasoning Ability
Cognitive Ability
Reading Level
•Self-efficacy
•Awareness of Timing Needs, Career
Interest, and Goals
10. PERSON ANALYSIS
Employees’ self- efficacy level can be increased by:
1. Letting Employees know that the purpose of the training is to try to
improve performance rather than to identify areas in which
employees are incompetent.
2. Providing as much as information as possible about the training
program and purpose of training prior to the actual training.
3. Showing Employees the training success of their peers who are
now in similar job.
4. Providing employees with feedback that learning is under their
control and they have the ability to overcome any learning
difficulties they experience in the program.
11. PERSON ANALYSIS
Process for Analyzing the Factors that Influence Employee Performance and Learning:
2. Input:
•Understanding What, How, When to Perform
•Situational Constraints
•Social Support
•Opportunity to Perform
12. PERSON ANALYSIS
Process for Analyzing the Factors that Influence Employee Performance and Learning:
3. Output:
•Expectations for Learning and
Performances
13. Performance Standard Example from:
Human Resources Department:
PERSON ANALYSIS
Answer calls on or before the 3rd ring. If unavailable to answer, have the phone roll
over to someone who can answer.
When voicemail is necessary or should a customer prefer to leave a voice-mail, return
the call not later than the next business day. Every effort should be made to return
calls the same business day.
Human Resources will respond to all e-mails, with a minimum of an acknowledgement
by the next business day. If an e-mail request is expected to take longer than the next
business day, the acknowledgement will provide a date when the requested
information will be available.
Should a customer inquiry require research or consultation, the individual asked will be
responsible for consulting with their appropriate team members and getting
information back to the customer. In rare instances when it is best to forward the
customer to another
Human Resources representative, the person conducting the transfer will remain on
the line until the other representative is reached and acknowledges that s/he can
address the issue.
14. 4. Consequences:
•Norms
•Benefits
•Rewards
PERSON ANALYSIS
Process for Analyzing the Factors that Influence Employee Performance and Learning:
15. 5. Feedback:
•Frequency
•Specificity
•Detail
PERSON ANALYSIS
Process for Analyzing the Factors that Influence Employee Performance and Learning:
16. 1. Is the performance problem important? Does it have the potential to cost the
company a significant amount of money from lost productivity or customers?
2. Do the employees know how to perform effective. (This problem is a
characteristic of the person.)
3. Can the employees demonstrate the correct knowledge or behavior? Perhaps
employees were trained but they infrequently or never used the training content
(knowledge, skills, etc.) on the job. (This is an input problem.)
4. Were the performance expectations clear (Input)? Were there any obstacles to
performance such as faulty tools or equipment?
5. Were positive consequences offered for good performance? Was poor
performance not rewarded? For example, if employees are dissatisfied with their
compensation, their peers or a union may encourage them to slow down their
pace of work. (This involves consequences.)
6. Did the Employees receive timely, relevant, accurate, constructive and specific
feedback about their performance?
7. Were other solutions – such as job redesign or transferring employees to other
jobs – too expensive or realistic?
PERSON ANALYSIS
Determining whether the training is the Best Solution
17. PERSON ANALYSIS Person Characteristics:
Person Characteristics:
•Basic Skills
•Basic Skills
Cognitive Ability
Reading Level
Cognitive Ability
Reading Level
•Self-efficacy
•Awareness of Timing Needs,
Career Interest, Goals
Input:
•Understanding What, How,
When to Perform
•Situational Constraints
•Social Support
•Opportunity to Perform
•Self-efficacy
•Awareness of Timing Needs,
Career Interest, Goals
Input:
•Understanding What, How,
When to Perform
•Situational Constraints
•Social Support
•Opportunity to Perform
Output:
Output:
•Expectations •Expectations for for Learning
Learning
and and Performances
Performances
Consequences:
•Norms
•Benefits
•Rewards
Consequences:
•Norms
•Benefits
•Rewards
Feedback:
•Frequency
•Specificity
•Detail
Feedback:
•Frequency
•Specificity
•Detail
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