Identifying Key Indicators Affecting Educational Needs Assessment through Realizing Organizational Strategies: A Network Analysis Process Method

The present study attempts to answer the question in terms of the indicators and the criteria affecting the educational needs assessment with the approach of realizing organizational strategies in Abadan Oil Refining Company. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and rank the indicators and the criteria affecting the educational needs assessment accordingly. Descriptive research method of Delphi was used in this study. To this end, a field survey was used to identify the effective criteria on educational needs assessment with the approach of realizing organizational strategies. These criteria were provided to 15 experts to be scored based on the research setting. Next, the extracted results yielded six indicators and 33 components. DEMATEL method and network analysis process were used to analyze the data. The results show that managerial factors were the most effective (7.46), and environmental factors were the most affected ones (6.59). The results also showed that environmental factors were the most important (0.240), and structural factors were the least important ones (0.106).