Struggling to Create a TNI for Department Heads Without Recent Appraisals – Need Your Advice

I am working in a private organization as an intern. In this organization, performance appraisal has not been undertaken for the past few years. However, now it wants to conduct a TNI immediately. It does not want to draft it for all the employees but only for department heads. This task has been assigned to me, but I am having difficulty in gathering appropriate questions for this purpose. Can you all help me with this? Can you please suggest some questions that I can include in the questionnaire? Also, could you advise me on how I should proceed?

Thank you.

Dear Ketaki, You have not written anything about the company where you are doing your internship. You should have mentioned the type of industry, finished product or service, number of employees, number of departments, etc.

Performance Appraisal and Employee Training

It is a mistaken view that Performance Appraisal (PA) should precede employee training. While PA has its importance, employee training need not be an offshoot of PA. PA is one of the means to derive the training needs. There are various performance ratios associated with each department. Employees are trained to improve those ratios.

Task Assignment to Interns

Secondly, it is a mistake of that organization to give the task of TNI to an intern. Of course, when the management of the organization wishes to continue even without PA for these many years, then it is too much to expect that they should understand the gravity of the TNI process.

In this connection, you may go through my exhaustive reply that I have given in the recent past. The link is as follows:

https://www.citehr.com/523786-traini...r-manager.html

In the above link, you will find several further links. Go through all the links patiently to understand the concept of employee training or TNA. Still, if you have some query, then you may call me on my mobile.

Thanks,

Dinesh Divekar

Thank you for the link; it is quite helpful. I am working at Nitco Tiles as an intern. Here, the work culture is quite lethargic, so I am finding it difficult to even get small information.

My college mentor was also shocked when he heard that I have been assigned TNI as my topic. They want to conduct the TNI on a very shallow basis, making it only for the department heads and requiring only three to-the-point questions. This situation is becoming quite challenging for me.

Could you please suggest some questions that I can include?

Dear Ketaki,

In your second post, you have also not provided complete information. Please include the information requested in the first two paragraphs of the previous post. My response will follow thereafter.

Kindly confirm which departments are considered primary and which are secondary. For the primary departments, please specify the inputs and outputs. The same information is requested for the secondary departments as well.

Thank you,
Dinesh Divekar

As I have mentioned, they are not ready to provide me with information in that regard. Even though I asked them for the information needed to create my questionnaire, they are not willing to provide it. Here, the work gets stuck between hierarchy and ego.

If you inquire about the finished product, it is of supreme quality, belonging to the premium range of tiles, marble, mosaic, and other related products. There are around 1100 employees, and I am unaware of the exact number of departments.

Since the appraisals have not taken place, employees are reluctant to respond to the questions posed to them. I hope I have provided all the information that was possible.

Regards