The Concept and its Dimensions

• People make things happen.

• If people have to make things happen, they need a set of

‘circumstances’ to make them happen.

• However, it is the people that create ‘circumstances’ that

can help them and others to make things happen.

• HRD is the process of enabling people to make things

happen.
• It deals both with the process of competency
development in people and creation of
conditions (through public policy, programmes
and other interventions) to help people apply
these competencies for their own benefit and
for that of others.
DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT
• Physical, intellectual, emotional, social, moral,
political, spiritual and all other forms of
developments are important.
 Physical Development
• People cannot function or make things happen unless they are
physically well developed, healthy and free from disease.

• Thus food, nutrition and freedom from disease become

important.

• People need to earn their food and living by working for it.

• They need to engage themselves in productive activities for

which again a combination of both physical development and
intellectual development are important.
 Intellectual development
• Intellectual development comes through the
process of education and socialization.
 Social Development
• Social development involves developing the
ability to live as a member of the society or a
group and contribute to it, at the same time
deriving benefits from it.

• The need of coexistence of all human beings

makes this development imperative.
 Political Development
• Political development ensures human dignity
through freedom of expression, democratic
participation and an opportunity to influence
things that is turn influence the individual’s
living.
 Moral and Spiritual Development
• Moral and spiritual development is required to
bring order, discipline and peace into life and
ensure that one person’s comfort does not
become his neighbor’s poison.

• Thus all forms of development of people can

be included in the definition of HRD.
Thank You