The effect of the assessment of training needs in the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education

Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education seek to improve and develop all employees from different level and sector within its organizational structure for each educational and administrative staff by design and implementation training needs assessment program in order to achieve strategic objective and to gain competitive advantage. The objective from this study is to developed and enhances training programs and training needs assessment for Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq. This study explanted all matter and issues concerned to training needs assessment programs, procedures and practices in term TNA. This study also investigated in all problems, issues and challenges that faced the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq to applied and design the both training and training needs assessment on the workforce. This research also focused to knows how training needs assessment programs effect on all employees from different organizational levels associated center of Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education in order to know and study their responses, opinions, attitudes and viewpoints towards the research objective. The data base collected from a study of 170 Iraqi Higher Educational employees and analyzed by statistical program (SPSS) software. This study explored many common problems that faced and prevented to conducting training needs in the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education at present time. Key factors were extracted through the principle components method (Eigen value). The results showed that there were eight main factors. These most important factors affecting the training needs assessment programs as they provide real indicators of the most important factors that caused the problems and challenges in the implementation of the assessment of training needs at work.