The Development of "The Assessment Instrument of the Human Resource Development Specialist Competencies"

Abstract

In this study, the competencies required by the human resource development (HRD) specialists were determined, and an assessment instrument of those competencies was developed. For this purpose, the literature on the subject was studied, interviews were held with some academic personnel at the university and some professionals in the organizations, and the assessment instrument was applied to 78 HRD specialists working in different organizations. At the end of the investigation, 36 competencies were determined and they were used as the items of the assessment instrument. In the testing of the internal consistency of the assessment instrument. Cronbach’s alpha was found as .95. The suggestions made by the academic personnel of the university for determining the competencies were accepted suitable for the content validity. In the factor analyses which were made for testing the construct validity , factor loadings were found rather high and the items in the instrument were gathered in four groups. The findings indicated that the instrument proved to have acceptable reliability and validity for assessing -especially for self assessing- the comptencies of the HRD specialists in Turkey.