Concept Of Human Resource Development

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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT HRD are those learning experience which are organized, for a specific time, and designed to bring about the possibility of behavioural change – according to Nadler in 1969 in a U.S. conference. Human Resource Development is a part of human resource management that specifically deals with training and development of the employees in the organization. Human resource development includes training a person after he or she is first hired, providing opportunities to learn new skills, abilities, distributing resources that are beneficial for the employee's tasks, and any other developmental activities. Human Resource Development includes such opportunities as employee training, employee career development, performance…show more content…
• The human resource management is mainly maintenance oriented whereas human resource development is development…show more content…
A learning organization has five main features; Systems thinking. The idea of the learning organization developed from a body of work called systems thinking. This is a conceptual framework that allows people to study businesses as bounded objects. Learning organizations use this method of thinking when assessing their company and have information systems that measure the performance of the organization as a whole and of its various components. Systems thinking state that all the characteristics must be apparent at once in an organization for it to be a learning organization Personal mastery. Personal mastery has become a means for providing competitive edge for organizations as to whose workforce can learn more quickly than others workforces in other organizations. It aims at self-development through individual commitment to learning. But learning cannot be coerced upon someone who is not receptive to learning. Modern studies show that learning is more incidental than formal training thus the objective of organizations must be to develop a culture where personal mastery can be practiced in daily life. Mental models. Assumptions held by individuals are known as mental models. These models must be challenged in order to create scope for new learning. Breaking these models and challenging the norms would create an open culture
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