- Title
- Continuous professional development for medical sales representatives: a needs assessment
- Creator
- Heleta, Jade Lana
- Subject
- Career development -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MCur
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/46366
- Identifier
- vital:39576
- Description
- Employees in any industry need to continuously update their skills in order to be knowledgeable and competitive. Conducting a needs assessment plays an instrumental role in ensuring that continuous professional development (CPD) training is relevant to the target audience. In many organisations, however, CPD training programmes are often planned and delivered without a comprehensive needs assessment first being undertaken. This was a quantitative study that used a descriptive survey design and an online survey tool for data collection and analysis. Using an all-inclusive sample, the purpose of this study was to explore and describe CPD needs of medical sales representatives at an international medical devices company that operates in South Africa. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. Research findings are depicted in frequencies, percentages, tables and figures. The findings of the study reveal specific training needs of the respondents and the shortcomings of the existing CPD offerings. The findings show that the CPD training offered by the company under study is mostly product specific and about sales. The respondents have highlighted that they would like to see more practical training to be incorporated into the CPD training programmes. It was also noted that the respondents would like to provide more input into the training programmes that are being offered by the company under study. The study has also identified areas where the company can improve in order to make these CPD training opportunities a more satisfying, educational and developmental experience for the employees. While the study focuses on one company, findings are relevant for other similar companies, as well as companies in other industries, since CPD at the workplace is a necessity in any competitive business environment or industry in order to increase productivity, sales, staff retention and customer satisfaction.
- Format
- xii, 117 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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