Training Program for R&D Staff

Innovation is the core competitive advantage of business administration, and the competency of R&D staff will influence the business development in the future. In this research, we worked with a private non-profit organization and attempted to develop training program of R&D staff's competency for them. Based upon the research purpose, we designed the research for three parts including document reviews, in-depth interviews and focus group methods to find out the training needs analysis about R&D staff. First of all, we reviewed 75 documents of business plans, internal strategy cahiers of this organization form 2004 to 2007, and 7 documents of R&D annul plans of technology in 2007, in order to identify the organization and job's training needs. Secondly, we used in-deep interviews with 14 R&D project managers to collect the job's training needs. Finally, in the present study we applied creative problem solving (CPS) technique on Group Decision Supporting System (GDSS) with 99 R&D staff to identify the employee's training needs. In the results, we developed innovation-oriented training program for R&D staff from 2007 to 2009, which conducted cross-industry learning community to develop new production. Furthermore, we set up the related strategy for transfer of training.