Design the need assessment instruments for jarir bookstore.

The method to learn about that if there is need for training is needed or not, if there is a need of training what kind of training should be implemented to make the staff more skilful. Training need assessment (TNA) fill the gap exist in the present situation and the desired situation by the organization. As concerned with jarir bookstore, the following steps should be taken in to consideration while assessing the need of training.

What training needs have you identified? Chose one to focus.

·         The first step is to identify the business need that in which case the jarir bookstore requires training program. In 2012, the government of Saudi Arabia enforce new labour law that was enforce on all the private companies that was in favour of the Saudi employees that every organization should have the more percentage of local employees than the foreign. If there is any organization which hire more than local labours it should be fined by the government $640per foreign employee, which increases the cost of the business of jarir bookstores. Thus there is need to hire the foreign employees which should be trained in international language therefore company hires multilingual employees which are not possible to replace that Arabic employees only speak Arabic.

·         There are stakeholders who are influenced by the training of jari bookstores:

Ø  Government

Ø  Employees

Ø  Customers

Ø  Owners

·         There may be people who influenced by the decision taken in the training program of jarir bookstores. The first one stakeholder is government, which implement the policy of the hiring local employees more in the organization but the companies hire foreigner to meet the need of the business. If the jarir bookstore not follows the law it will penalize by the government but if they train the local employees for the fulfilment of the government policies which will require training need assessment. There may be stakeholders like employees and customers of Jarir bookstores, employees could be affected in more that it could be increase in the number of the employees based local and international level. When the employees are trained in the multi language, customers could find better services provided by the jarir bookstores. The main stakeholder will be employees to discuss in the program.

·         The training is provided to the employees as they are the main stakeholder to be effected in this program.

·         Other issues in Jarir bookstores may be related to the strategies which are to be implemented in the sale of computer and other products which are needed to be designed to implication of the new strategies.

·         These issues are not related with training therefore it should be removed with the sale strategies. As the cost of the operating is increased there will be increase in prices which may also need to adopt cost effective strategies that make the product more economical.

1.       Write the SMART objectives for the training.

The training program for the jarir bookstores in the SMART objectives could be elaborated in such a way that:

·         Specific: the training program for the employees to learn about multi languages should be specific in the term of topic that employees should know about the ultimate purpose of the training.

·         Measureable: the training program must be foe a limited number of the employees which are to be trained in jarir bookstores.

·         Achievable: the targets of the training program must be attainable by the employees such as the training is conducted to speak the different languages there should be ultimate end of training when the employees are able to speak other languages.

·         Relevant: all the aspects of the training should be relevant to the need for which the training is being conducted.

·         Time bound: training conducted in the organization must have time limit that it will be ended on that date. It should not be too long or too short that employees could not get the benefits.

Writing objectives

There are several writing objectives but in the case where the training is needed in the organization. The ultimate goals are domain with different three groups such as:

Ø  Cognitive domain

The training program increased the intellectual thinking of employees to develop the skills in different languages.

Ø  Psychomotor domain

The training program also enhance the physical performance of the actions of employees in the organization.

Ø  Affective domain

The attitude will be positive as the training is for the betterment of the employees.

The objectives of the training in jarir bookstores is basically to identified that the organization needs the employees which are with different languages that the economy of Saudi Arabia based on the tourism of different countries and people from different countries visited here therefore there is need of the employees who deal with multilingual.

Information about the employees in training:

The law enforced that the 60% of the total employees should be local based which should hire by any private organizations. If the total number of the employees on an organization is 1000 there should be 600 employees which need the training. The nature of the employees should be based on local and familiar about the laws enforced in the organization.

Budget allocation for the training in the jarir bookstores

The budget is always estimation of an event which is needed to conduct the training with the following cost distribution if the total cost is approximately $12000:

The above table is the percentage of the total cost which is distributed in different organizations according to their size of the business.

The implementation of the estimated budget also have some risk relates to the new strategies. Jarir bookstores could use this budget in the allocation of the resources which is according to the ability of the organization.