[[alternative]]A Necessity Study of Implementing Human Performance Technology

[[abstract]]The primary purposes of this study were to explore the theory of human performance technology and to investigate the necessity of enterprises implementing human performance technology. To fulfill the research purposes, literature reviews and questionnaire survey of the random samples of Top 1000 companies in 1999 were used to collect data. Furthermore, collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, T-test and ANOVA. Several conclusions were drawn from the research findings. The conclusions of this study were listed as follows: 1.Human performance technology is a systemic and systematic approach to identifying performance problems, and finding the reasons or barriers of performance gaps. Then, solutions were created to quickly and effectively remove the barriers and to improve performance for achieving the goals of organizations or individuals. 2.Human resource development departments use systematic performance improvement approach to effectively assist individuals to improve performance and attain the goals of organization; Analysis, selection, design, development, implementation and evaluation are included among the systematic steps. 3.Enterprises use training to assist individuals to improve performance most often. Therefore, implementing human performance technology will make training more cost-efficient and be a more strategic tool of performance improvement.