Training need assessment on human resource management information system for public school heads of Punjab

Abstract

The school education department, Government of Punjab had launched human resource management information system for school heads in 2019. It desired to operate many different managerial tasks of school heads through this system such as online leave mechanism, teacher’s retirement and pension, online ACRs and other financial operations. But school heads were facing problems while using the system. The study focused on training need assessment on this system for school heads. The design of the study was phenomenology. Further it was transcendental. The data were collected through focus group discussion from eight high and higher secondary school heads and observed that most of the heads demanded capacity building training on the system and highlighted many training needs.