Assessment of Training Needs within the Context of Administrative Reform in Jordan Available to Purchase

Since the 1960s Jordan has witnessed efforts of administrative reform to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its administrative system. Management training is considered a very viable approach to such reform. Assessing training needs is a very critical process in management development. This article discusses assessment of training needs as a process within the context of administrative training and reform. Fifty‐seven officers of Administrative Development and Training Units (ADTUS) in Jordan were interviewed and the findings of the study indicated that assessment of training needs is done in an impressionistic way. The article ends by recommending better selection of ADTUS officers and effective development programmes for them,including formal and on‐the‐job training. Assessment of training needs should be emphasised in the development programmes. It is recommended also that other areas of management training, such as designing training programmes and evaluating them, ought to be empirically researched by other students of management.