Training Needs Analysis: Alternatives to Blanchard & Thacker

For your final, complete a research paper addressing ONE of the following topics:

1. Training Needs Analysis: Alternatives to Blanchard & Thacker
2. Training Strategies for Small and Medium Ssized Businesses: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
3. Management Development Techniques: An Elaboration on Blanchard & Thacker
4. Training Evaluation: New Techniques and Strategies
5. The Learning Organization: Three Companies That Have Made it a Reality

Your paper is to reflect the current “state of the art” in the area and should reflect both academic and professional (practical) orientations.  The paper should review the available research, discuss the implications of the research for the topic area, and provide conclusions.  The paper should be organized into the following areas:

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Introduction:  The area of research should be described and the purpose of the research.  That is , describe the topic area in terms of 1) its relationship to training and 2) what you want to be able to contribute to the training literature by writing this paper.

Review of literature: Organize the literature into logical streams of thought related to your topic area.  Witin each of these areas summarize what the literature has to say.  Be sure to indicate in your discussion whether the information is based on empirical data or just the opinion of the author.

Implications of the literature:  Again, organize the impliocations of the literature in a manner that logically builds the case for your conclusions (which you will present in the next section).  For each of your implications be sure to reference the literature related to that implication.  Be sure to indicate whether the implication is one that has already been made in the literature or if this is one that is original to you.  You should dentify in this section important areas related to your topic that are missing from the literature.

Conclusions:  This is where you tie all the pieces together.  Make sure your conclusions are organized in a logical order that states what you have concluded relative to the purpose of your paper.  Be sure that these conclusions are justifies.  For example, comclusions based upon empirical fact have more weight than those based uponopinion.  Opinions shared by many in the literature have more weight than those of only one author.

Format:

Papers are to be 5-7 double spaced pages, typewritten, and referenced (APA format).  Any established referencing system can be used, but you need to make very clear where ideas, concepts, and principles come from.  At least 10 references more recent than 2015 are required.  Papers will be evaluated on the content of the paper, the professional aa