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Individual Needs in Training and Development

After learning about developing criteria in the Unit 8 assignment and reading the assigned readings for this week, you have the opportunity to discuss how assessments in the workplace can influence the training process. To better understand these concepts, you will now discuss the relationship between training needs, individuals, assessments, validity, and reliability.

• Explain the differences between training outcomes and training criterion.
• How do individual needs influence training program development? What are the risks associated with not considering individual needs in training programs?
• How do training needs differ between individuals and groups?
• How does the training needs analysis influence or inform validity and reliability?
• Analyze how validity and reliability guide training program development.

Unit 9 Assigned Reading

Training and development are an integral part of industrial and organizational psychology. Developing effective training programs, which are sensitive to an individual’s needs, maintain validity, and produce reliable results is a necessary skill for industrial and organizational psychologists. The following chapter will familiarize you with designing and evaluating training systems. From your textbook, Spector (2021):

Read:

• Chapter 7: Training: Designing and Evaluating Training Systems