HRD practitioner Interview

p An HRD practitioner is a complex and inspiring person , he /she has to be both well versed in management and technical skills as well as being a warm but firm person , to be nurturing and a disciplinarian and to be decisive , ethical , and kind-hearted . Before conducting this interview , I had a different understanding of the roles and responsibilities that an HRD practitioner should have . I thought that the most important things for us to learn were the different functions of human resource management . Little did I know that the personhood of the

HRD practitioner is also a huge determinant of his /her effectiveness . I thought that knowing the concepts about managing people , motivation employee attitudes , and problem behaviors were enough I did not think that an HRD practitioner has to make those concepts come to life through its application in the organization (Swanson , 2001 . I have also learned that some peripheral HRD functions such as benefits and compensation can be outsourced but the more personal functions such as trainings performance evaluation , mentoring and coaching and employee discipline are best served when the organization has its own HR department Moreover , HRD functions cannot be taken lightly it is as much as important as the smooth and effective operation of the organization . HRD means human resource development and this probably is the most appropriate indicator of what HR practitioners do in their jobs . HRD is concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the human resources of the organization and within these two...