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Human Resource Development (HRD) is the use of training, organizational development, and Career development efforts to improve individual, group, and organizational efficiency to mobilize workforce.

Human Resource Development helps to:

  • Develop the key competencies that allow individuals in organizations to perform current and future jobs, through planned learning activities

  • Groups within organizations initiate and manage change

  • Ensure a match between an individual and organizational needs.



DEFINITION


  • Human resource development is concerned with providing learning and development opportunities, making training interventions and planning conducting training programs. It is essentially a strategic process, which is concerned with meeting both business and individual needs.


According to T.V.Rao,"HRD is a continuous planned processby which employees are helped"

There are several competing definitions for HRD including things such as unleashing human potential, training and development, career development, organizational performance, complex systems, organizational change and development, and other issues. The publications of the Academy of Human Resource Development (www.ahrd.org) have many thriving examples of HRD practice, theory, and application.


TYPICAL HRD PRACTICES


  • Executive and supervisory/management development

  • Professional skills training

  • Technical/Job instruction and coaching

  • Sales and marketing training

  • Customer service training

  • New employee orientation

  • Health and safety training

  • Organizational development consultation