Introduction to Human Resource Development:

Human Resource Development (HRD) is the framework for helping

employees develops their personal and organizational skills,
knowledge, and abilities.

Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as

employee training, employee career development, performance
management and development, coaching, mentoring, succession
planning, key employee identification, tuition assistance, and
organization development.

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. Organizations have many opportunities for human
resources or employee development, both within and outside of the
workplace.

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.
Essay # 2. Concept of Human Resource Development:

HRD is mainly concerned with developing the skill, knowledge and

competencies of people and it is people-oriented concept. When we
call it as a people-oriented concept the question of people be
developed in the larger or national context or in the smaller
organisational context? Is it different at the macro and micro level?
HRD can be applied both for the national level and organizational
level.

The concept of HRD was formally introduced by Leonard Nadler in

1969, in a Conference organised by the American Society for
Training and Development. Leonard Nadler defines HRD
as, “those learning experiences which are organised, for a
specific time, and designed to bring about the possibility
of behavioural change.”

One of the functions of Human Resource development is to assist the organization by

creating an environment suitable for learning which is required to help develop staffs to
meet agreed objectives (Wilson 2005). Learning is defined as “a change in an individual’s
level of knowledge, skills or attitudes” (Gibb 2008). Learning is believed to be the individual’s
ability to cope with change which can be acquired either through formal education or
training or through informal experiences (Wilson 2005). As much as organizations are
interested in ensuring they utilize the knowledge and skills of all their employees it is
believed that little is gained through training provided at work but it is believed that most
learning acquired by the individual is through their interaction with colleagues, clients which
is said to be learning acquired through experience (Mullins 2002).

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