HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Definition 1: Organizing and enhancing capacities to produce.

HRD is a process of organizing and enhancing the physical, mental and emotional capacities of individuals for productive work.

Definition 2: Bring possibility of performance and growth

HRD means to bring about the possibility of performance improvement and individual growth.

Human resource development is a process to help people to acquire competencies and to increase their knowledge, skills and capabilities for better performance and higher productivity.

 

Proactive HRD Strategies for long term planning and growth

In today’s fast changing, challenging and competitive environment HRD has to take a proactive approach that is to seek preventive care in human relations. Using HRD strategies maximizations of efficiency and productivity could be achieved through qualitative growth of people with capabilities and potentialities to grow and develop. HRD is always a function of proper utilization of creative opportunities and available environment through acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for productive efforts.

Long-term growth can also be planned by creating highly inspired groups of employees with high aspirations to diversify around core competencies and to build new organizational responses for coping with change.

A proactive HRD strategy can implement activities that are geared up and directed at improving personal competence and productive potentialities of human resources.

Following strategic choices can be considered which would help today’s organizations to survive and grow.

Change Management: Manage change properly and become an effective change agent rather than being a victim of change itself.

Values: Adopt proactive HRD measures, which encourage values of openness, trust, autonomy, proactivity and experimentation.

Maximize productivity and efficiency: Through qualitative growth of people with capabilities and potentialities to grow and develop thrive to maximize productivity and efficiency of the organization.

Activities directed to competence building: HRD activities need to be geared up and directed at improving personal competence and productive potentialities of manpower resources.