Your Minipaper assignment is due Sunday of week 5:

For the Minipaper, your assignment is to write 3- to 5-content pages double-spaced and with 12-point font (approximately 1,500 words), describing the 







(a) status of your needs assessments efforts for your Course Project. (b) Describe the methods and processes being utilized to gather the information.  







(c) Analysis: Analyze the data you have collected and identify one or more training needs for the organization. Be sure to fully justify your recommendations and link your recommendations to the organization’s business goals.  The data collected must be viewed in terms of the initial intent of the project. Care must be taken to evaluate the data for what they portray. Insufficient analysis or understanding of data, as well as reading more into data than what they actually portray, are equally ineffective activities.  the paper should incorporate concepts discussed in the text, articles, case studies, and discussions, 







(d) The paper should include information regarding the three levels of analysis (individual, task, organization) and 







(e) should also discuss any difficulties experienced in getting the data. 







(f) You should also discuss your initial insights regarding the data and your thoughts about a training intervention that could be pursued as a result of these data. 

HR 592 Mini paper rubric	Points Possible
Status of needs assessment addressed	20
Page length met (3-5 pages of content in YOUR words)	10
Format followed (APA)-Grammar/Sentence structure is correct. Used less than 20% properly cited quoted materials	10
Paper incorporated articles/case studies	10
Paper described methods/processes used to gather data	10
Paper discusses 3 levels of analysis (individual/task/organization)	20
Paper includes section about challenges in obtaining data	10
Section included on initial thoughts about training intervention	10
Â	100