DETERMINANTS OF TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS (TNAs) FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER’S CASE STUDY: ARUMERU DISTRICT COUNCIL – ARUSHA TANZANIA.
Key words: Training Needs Assessment, Training Needs Analysis, Skill Gap, Community Development, Arumeru District Council, Tanzania.
Abstract : The study on training needs assessment (TNAs) for the community development worker’s conducted between 2015 and 2020 at Arumeru District Council in Tanzania, where 36 staffs from community development department were key of analysis, The general objective of the sudy was exploring the determinants of Training Needs Assessment, and the objectives were: identification of skill gaps, identification of the necessary conditions, process and causes for the TNAs to take place among community development worker’s within the Council., The methods of data collection were Primary data obtained through questionnaire, interviews and focus group discussion during the field survey and secondary data were collected from ADC documents, reports, guidelines, operational manual, journals and books, as well as related study site in the internet. The data collected were analyzed by using statistical tool such as SPSS version 20 statistical tools,
The study found that TNAs is one of the important human resource functions in the Council. The evidence from documentary and policy reviews, the skill gaps that exist, processes and causes of TNAs confirm this need. It seems that junior’s worker were of the same opinion regarding the training topics they favor most. There has been even less difference in the score among the respondents. As the most important, the respondents identified Application of CD Approaches” with 12.5%; followed by “Community Engagement 6.5% , “Gender diversity, Standard Operating procedures, and Project proposal ” with a score of 5%. As the least important on the other side was considered “Conflict Management and Report Writing” course with less than 2.5%, there is.Slight differences have been noticed in the priority order among the group with different working experience, also the study found out that the processes involved for the TNAs of the community development worker’s to take place. Further the findings show that the management through the Open Performance Review and Appraisal System, OPRAS assessment is the basis process notable that enables TNAs to take place 18 (47.4%) compared to individual assessments 11 (28.9%). This means that the ADC through department of community development makes evaluation of performance for their worker’s before being proposed for further training, furthermore the study discovered apart from different level of education both employees were in need of methodologies for short term training with suggested time frame, study indicates the respondents of the Survey was “training outside the working place”, with score of 44.7%, followed by “peer-to-peer meeting” as training format with 18.4%. Least favourite was “e-learning” as a training format with 3%.
"DETERMINANTS OF TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS (TNAs) FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER’S CASE STUDY: ARUMERU DISTRICT COUNCIL – ARUSHA TANZANIA.", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.d169-d185, March-2023, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2303326.pdf
Volume 8
Issue 3,
March-2023
Pages : d169-d185
Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_189284
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2303326
Downloads: 000118828
Research Area: Social Science and Humanities
Country: Arusha, Arusha, Tanzania
ISSN: 2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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