Needs Assessment.

With the given situation of a new job and a new plant, the method choice for assessment would be the focus groups. As compared to the other methods, this was found most suitable for the circumstances being as it had more advantages than disadvantages for the scenario. The advantages of using this method for the company's needs assessment are: (1) The method is found useful with complex issues and with a new position and a new …

…equipment repair. This, too, has low levels of importance. The highest frequency level with the highest difficulty rating makes this the next task to be concentrated on in training. And the last task that merits the least amount of attention in the training and development is the replacing of the components, which had the lowest ranking in both importance level and degree of difficulty. This was not frequently used enough to merit much training time.