Training Needs of the National Agricultural Research System Scientist of Bangladesh

Abstract

Knowledge, skills and attitude are components for increasing the job efficiency and performances of the employees for increasing productivity in an organization that can achieve through training. Scientist requires knowledge, abilities and skills for better performance that can identified through training need assessment, which is lacking in National Agricultural Research System (NARS) in Bangladesh. Assessing training needs through proper methods is of paramount importance in this regard. Agricultural researches mainly conducted by the researchers of the 13 national research institutes work under the coordination of the Bangladesh Agricultural Council (BARC). The objective of the present study was to identify the types of training needs for the NARS scientists of mono-crop and multi-crop organizations. The empirical data were collected from 25 September to 01 November 2022 from the individuals through online survey and face to face sessions on the training need assessments (TNAs) in each of the NARS institutes. During the TNA sessions, job and task analyses exercised, and skill-gap analyses conducted to identify the types of training required for the scientists. The present article highlighted the training needs which are significant to design training programs in achieving scientist’s efficiency, and lead to achieve objectives of the organizations.