Training and development is considered as a firm's key responsibility to enhance both; individual's performance and business strategies (Applegarth, 1991). The 'Need' suggests that there is a standard of performance of employees that should be attained by them. This is due to the fact, that the standards drawn for performance measurement let employees evaluate their work (Simmonds, 2003). In the recent era, the emergence of competences and competencies has increased the need for implementing performance standards for change management (Cartwright, 2003). Consequently, it helps employees to develop competence-based i.e. output or competency-based ...