1. In a budget meeting with your functional colleagues, the discussion turns to cost reduction. The finance manager suggests cutting HR's training budget and it seem to have some support. You what to point out the economic, social and political forces that have made training even more important that it has been in the past. What is your response? 2. The CEO has called a meeting to determine what training will be funded in the coming year. Several suggestions are proposed and soon the discussion becomes heated, each person wanting their pet training program funded. You suggest an analysis on training needs be conducted. What analysis will you suggest and next steps after the needs are identified? 3. You are an HR Director, and your Training & Development Manager has just presented course evaluation data from questionnaires of training participants. You are somewhat skeptical of this method and what to point out the pros and cons. What is your response to your T&D Manager? 4. You are the Manager of HR listening to presentations from your staff on employee selection, training and development and performance management. The presentations seem disjointed and you want to emphasize the performance management process is linked to the others as a performance management system. How do you explain this linkage? 5. You are a Manager of an HR department and you have observed over time your Staffing professional has not been meeting expectations. You are pondering how you will go about diagnosing this employee's performance problems. What is you final plan and what factors will you consider?