the manager of Human Resources Training and Development at a large furniture manufacturing plant that employs 500 non-unionized employees. Job titles span many departments such as specialized production workers, maintenance, caretakers, design teams, and administrators. The company does not currently undergo a formal training needs analysis process. Managers of each department decide what skills may be lacking amongst their workers and submit their training needs to the HR Training and Development department during a designated two-week period each year during budget planning season. Normally requests have been reasonable and there has been enough room in the budget to honour most requests. However due to major cutbacks, your training budget has been significantly decreased for the upcoming year. As well, you tend to receive requests from the same departments each year and not hear from other large areas of the company. Therefore, you are thinking of being more strategic and instituting a formal training needs analysis process

1. What are the benefits to conducting a formal training needs analysis in the context of this case study, and how may it help address the issues described above? please add website links