Human Resource Development

Human Resource Development

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INTRODUCTION

Human Resource Development is the latest name given in the series of various practices connected with the development of the employees , their training and education . Human Resource Development (HRD , unlike the previous practices of a Human Resource department , is a framework to guide the employees in developing their skills through which they can achieve their personal as well as organizational goals . HRD is not limited to the training , education or development of employees , but it

includes employee career development , mentoring , coaching and performance management . Therefore Human Resource Development does represent a different approach to the subject . This will explain the different features of HRD and compare them with the earlier practices of developing the HR

OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND OF HRD

The term Human Resource Development has been around for over two decades now but still it is an unexplored area of management in many organizations around the world . As opposed to the other HR management practices such as employee education , coaching , training and mentoring HRD bring about inevitable turbulence and change in business environment , organizational culture , power structures , organizational life and the bottom line . If implemented successfully and with a proper strategy , HRD can increase the bottom line for the business with numbers unimagined by the stakeholders (Joy-Matthews , Megginson and Surtees 2004

A range of earlier concepts and perspectives in HR are associated with Human Resource Development . Also there are different aims of HRD which are the achievement...