Human Resource Development (HRD) is the framework for helping employees develop their personal and organizational skills, knowledge, and abilities. Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as employee training, employee career development, performance management and development, mentoring, succession planning,Ā key employee identification, tuition assistance, and organization development.Ā 

The focus of all aspects of Human Resource Development is on developing the most superior workforce so that the organization and individual employees can accomplish their work goals in service to customers.

Human Resource Development can be formal such as in classroom training, a college course, or an organizational planned change effort. Or, Human Resource Development can be informal as in employee coaching by a manager. Healthy organizations believe in Human Resource Development and cover all of these bases.

Features of Human Resource development

The essential features of human resource development can be listed as follows:
  • Human resource development is a process in which employees of the organisations are recognized as its human resource. It believes that human resource is most valuable asset of the organisation.
  • It stresses on development of human resources of the organisation. It helps the employees of the organisation to develop their general capabilities in relation to their present jobs and expected future role.
  • It emphasise on the development and best utilization of the capabilities of individuals in the interest of the employees and organisation.
  • It helps is establishing/developing better inter-personal relations. It stresses on developing relationship based on help, trust and confidence.
  • It promotes team spirit among employees.
  • It tries to develop competencies at the organisation level. It stresses on providing healthy climate for development in the organisation.
  • HRD is a system. It has several sub-systems. All these sub-systems are inter-related and interwoven. It stresses on collaboration among all the sub-systems.
  • It aims to develop an organisational culture in which there is good senior-subordinate relations, motivation, quality and sense of belonging.
  • It tries to develop competence at individual, inter-personal, group and organisational level to meet organisational goal.
  • It is an inter-disciplinary concept. It is based on the concepts, ideas and principles of sociology, psychology, economics etc.
  • It form on employee welfare and quality of work life. It tries to examine/identify employee needs and meeting them to the best possible extent.
  • It is a continuous and systematic learning process. Development is a life long process, which never ends.
Benefits of Human Resource Development

Human resource development now a days is considered as the key to higher productivity, better relations and greater profitability for any organisation.AppropriateHRDprovidesunlimitedbenefitstotheconcerned organisation. Some of the important benefits are being given here:
  • HRD (Human Resource Development) makes people more competent. HRD develops new skill, knowledge and attitude of the people in the concern organisations.
  • With appropriate HRD programme, people become more committed to their jobs. People are assessed on the basis of their performance by having a acceptable performance appraisal system.
  • An environment of trust and respect can be created with the help of human resource development.
  • Acceptability toward change can be created with the help of HRD. Employees found themselves better equipped with problem-solving capabilities.
  • It improves the all round growth of the employees. HRD also improves team spirit in the organisation. They become more open in their behaviour. Thus, new values can be generated.
  • It also helps to create the efficiency culture In the organisation. It leads to greater organisational effectiveness. Resources are properly utilised and goals are achieved in a better way.
  • It improves the participation of worker in the organisation. This improve the role of worker and workers feel a sense of pride and achievement while performing their jobs.
  • It also helps to collect useful and objective data on employees programmes and policies which further facilitate better human resource planning.
  • Hence, it can be concluded that HRD provides a lot of benefits in every organisation. So, the importance of concept of HRD should be recognised and given a place of eminence, to face the present and future challenges in the organisation.
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What does an Employee need to become engaged?

  • job clarity and priorities (SMART)
  • ongoing feedback and communication
  • opportunities to learn and grow (coaching, L&D)
  • accountability (rewards, respect, trust)