Needs Assessment Reflection Paper

As a member of the HR department of a small retail company, I have been tasked with implementing a new employee training program. This class is being designed especially for our new customer service associates to ensure they are successful in their new position. “Having a trained workforce means your workers are learning new skills that can improve production, cut time spent in creation of your service, reduce production costs, reduce mistakes, build confidence in your workforce, and create a better working environment” (Benton, 2014). Making sure that our new employees are fully trained is an investment in our company. When we have a skilled, trained workforce, productivity and efficiency will remain high.

Almost 100% of Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. No matter where immigrants came from or what year they arrived, they all had the same hope: a hope for a better tomorrow. For centuries, The United States of America has been a haven for the persecuted and the weary, but also for people who were looking for a shining new beginning, since its founding centuries ago. Moreover, since America’s founding, it has been an intermingling of different peoples from different backgrounds. In fact, the roots of our great nation are of hundreds of different ethnic backgrounds.

The United States of America is a nation of many immigrant people. People come from all over the world, leaving their homeland and sometimes leaving their loved ones to escape deep poverty and violence. When immigrants come to America, in their dreamland they face many problems such as language, education, employment, legal problems, housing, food, and health issues. Immigrants do all kinds of low-paying jobs. They clean houses for a living. Some immigrants come with very small businesses. Many immigrants contribute their skills, knowledge, and education to improve the U.S. economy.

An organization with uncertain training practices needs to conduct a needs assessment. Summit Credit Union doubled their size in 2008 and invested in their training development. However, SCU has determined there is an inadequate amount of lender skills to perform their tasks. SCU will examine what is currently being trained and what is missing from the training program.

The United States of America was founded by immigrants. In fact, foreigners have shaped nearly every aspect of American culture. Unless a person is of Native American descent, their family has an immigration story whether they are aware of it or not. Today in the U.S., many individuals believe that immigrants are more of a strain to society than they are a benefit. The truth is that immigration is an extremely complex subject that has multiple manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions.

Many immigrants come to America for better opportunities and a better life for themselves and their children. Immigrants have different experiences from Native-born Americans such as moving to a new country and not knowing the language and having to work to support themselves and their family. Dan Ariely’s book

Immigrants are some of the hardest working people on the planet. They come from places that often have few jobs or poor pay and when they get to America they do not want a handout, they want the opportunity to improve their position in life. They know that they were not born with the advantages that a child born in America has: so they work to give their kids a better future. My grandparents, for example, immigrated from the Netherlands as newlyweds and immediately started working and raising a family. My grandfather worked as an accountant, then both he and my grandma got teaching degrees in America.

Immigrants come from all over the world. They fled their country seeking to fulfill their wants and necessary needs to live, especially the ones with families. They come to America frequently and in big groups. Their intentions is just to give the best life that they can to their children or themselves. The United States offers great job opportunities and freedom to all these immigrants. “Many people see America as the land of opportunity - the land of milk and honey - the Promised Land. Whether this is true or not, it becomes a matter of personal experience. For many, the move to America may be the best thing they ever did, and these are the people who become successful in their endeavors. For other people, the move to America may become a

A systematic process that involves in the development and well established approaches to understanding the needs of a local population is called needs assessment. In order to describe the health problems related to a populations it involves three methods. This methods that are involved are epidemiological, qualitative, and comparative (Wright 1998). For example a health needs assessment is a systematic process that involves evaluating the health problems of population. In analyzing a health needs assessment involves by first identifying the inequalities of health care system and access to health care and by identifying ways the majority can benefit from health care.

The first thing I want to state is that I learned quite a bit from this course.  This is probably one of the most challenging courses I’ve taken thus far in my college career.  Most of tasks I’ve done in this course I have never done before and that’s what made it so challenging.  I am use to taking courses that require me to study material from presentations and books.  With this information I take exams and quizzes.  This course was nothing like that.  This course had me going out and networking with individuals outside of the university.  The networking is the very first thing that stood out to me in this course since I am not really the outgoing/ people person.  From networking I did learn a lot and met numerous interesting people that

America is a nation which is open for immigrants. That has also benefitted them allot for example Albert Einstein was an immigrant and many more know persons. That was possible because America have usually been open over for immigrants. America is the engine of global economy and the hard working and talented immigrants has helped America to get there. The immigrants has indeed helped America economically and have created a multicultural society. The multicultural society attract many tourist to the country. It gives a warm feeling knowing everyone is welcome in the country. That factor also attract more immigrant to the country, by knowing you can be one of the many others to start a new life with many new

I have worked at the same job for 4 years and only until about a year ago I built up the courage to ask for a raise that I was rightfully allowed to obtain years ago. This relates to dependencies and the unequal power struggle within men and women, and that women are encouraged to be passive instead of rebelling (Dean, 2012, p.9).

America’s integration of immigrants will lead to the rise of a new society with a variety of languages, traditions and way of life. As a recent study from Pew University revealed that the children of immigrants, are in general doing better economically than their parents, are more likely to marry and have friends outside their ethnic groups, and are twice as likely to say they consider themselves to be a “typical American.”

Even though I believe this class is helpful, I believe this class might be harder for me than expected. I do not do very well when it comes to writing and reading comprehension, but I hope that through this class I will be able to excel and do much better than before. I believe that through proper time management, I will be able to do well and meet each deadline on time.

Some things I found easy with this class was it was easy to find yourself ranked at the top half. Most of the year students didn't do what was expected. Even when it wasn't a very big expectation. So showing up to class with your essay on time would put you at an advantage than most the class. I was happy to only miss one class the entire