Under the world economic environment where is a growing unclearness due to extended economic recession as a side effect of global financial crisis, korean corporation need to build up countermeasures for recurrence of crisis and should be prepared wit...
Under the world economic environment where is a growing unclearness due to extended economic recession as a side effect of global financial crisis, korean corporation need to build up countermeasures for recurrence of crisis and should be prepared with business constitution and business strategies for continuous growth(Samsung Economic Research institute, 2011). Under such environment, it is being more emphasized to securing and training talented human resource to improve corporate competency and promote continuous growth, and the competency of human resource development(HRD) which is the core of training talented human resource and development is being considered as the key factor in determining competencies of a corporate. To secure the competencies of HRD, it is necessary to examine the business management strategy and objective, perform the roles directly related to business performance and have required competencies and professionalism in role performance. Therefore, there is a pressing demand for a study that analyzes the needs for competencies development program for HRD management for performance-oriented HRD and supports designing competencies develop- ment plan.
Based on the demand for above studies, this study analyzed the needs for present and future education of performance consulting competencies for korean corporation HRD practitioners using Borich need assessment model, then provided priorities in competencies development. The preliminary questions are as follows.
Question 1. How is the recognition level of present importance, present level, future importance (3~5 years) of performance consulting competencies in HRD practitioners?
Question 2. Among the performance consulting competencies, which competencies is recognized by HRD practitioners to be trained in the present and in the future(3~5 years) in prior to other competencies?
For the analysis, the study, using human performance improvement(HPI) competencies model by Rothwell(2000), carried out a questionnaire survey on 162 HRD practitioners from 2 major companies who have experience in either international society for performance improvement (ISPI) or performance consulting competencies development program, and conducted frequency analysis, paired samples t-test and Borich need assessment model estimation in accordance with research objectives.
The results of this study are as follow.
First, in the result of analysis on the level of recognized present importance and present possession amongst 40 performance consulting competencies, the priorities between recognition level of present importance and current possession level among core competencies, analyst competencies, intervention specialist competencies and evaluator competencies appeared to be similar, however, current possession level was observed to be lower than recognition level of importance.
Second, from the result of analysis on the future importance and current possession level, significant differences in priorities were observed between the recognition level of future importance and current possession level in core competencies, analyst competencies, intervention specialist competencies and change manager competencies and evaluator competencies, and the current possession level appeared to be lower than the recognition level of future importance.
Third, in the result of analysis on the needs for performance consulting competencies training program, it was observed to be with higher priority in the order of ‘industry awareness’, ‘leadership skills’, ‘business understanding’, ‘consulting skills’, ‘problem solving skills’, ‘knowledge of interventions’ and ‘ability to see big picture’. All of them are included in core competencies group, and are basic and mutually required for role performance as performance consultant according to Rothwell(2000).
Fourth, in the result analysis on the needs for future education, it was observed to be with higher priority in the order of ‘feedback skills’, ‘Industry Awareness’, ‘ability to identify critical business issues and changes’, ‘business understanding’, ‘ability to see big picture’, ‘consulting skills’ and ‘leadership skills’.
This study analyzes the differences between current level of performance consulting competencies and level of importance and provides the priorities in competencies development thus has an important meaning in that it provides priorities in competencies that should be concerned in the present and in the future to strengthen performance consulting competencies of HRD practitioners in korean corporation.