1-Definitions of HRD: Hassan, 2007 436)
1-Definitions of HRD: Hassan, 2007 436)
1-Definitions of HRD: Hassan, 2007 436)
1- Definitions of HRD
Nowadays, many authors used term Human resource development (HRD) to
indicate training and development, career development, and organization development
as an organization's investment in the learning of its people as part of an HRM
approach (Bratton & Gold, 1999; Swanson & Holton, 2001; Vinesh, 2014). HRD is
based on the beliefs that organizations are human-made entities that rely on human
expertise in order to establish and achieve their goals and that HRD professionals are
advocates of individual and group, work processes and organizational integrity
(Hassan,2007;436). HRD is the process of optimizing the production and utilization
of the workforce. HRD is concerned with: (a) Staffing issues: employment, mix and
number of personnel, deployment by region, by level of care, by type of
establishment, by gender; (b) Education and training: coherence between
competencies and needs of the services, programs and curricula, learning strategies,
availability of competent teachers and trainers, of adequate infrastructures; (c)
Performance management: maintenance and improvement of the quality of services,
setting of standards, information and management systems, management practices; (d)
Working conditions: recruitment and posting, job and workload definition,
promotions and career mobility, incentives, mode and level of remuneration, other
conditions of service, management of personnel and labor relations (Dussault, 1999;
4-5). Human resource development (HRD) is a process of developing and unleashing
human expertise through organization development (OD) and personnel training and
development (T&D) for the purpose of improving performance (Swanson & Holton,
2001; 90):
The domains of performance include organizations, work processes, and
groups and individuals.
OD is the process of systematically implementing organizational change for
the purpose of improving performance.
T&D is the process of systematically developing expertise in individuals for
the purpose of improving performance.
Therefore, HRD is set of systematic tasks to enrichment employees by skills,
knowledge, and experiences to meet what are needs a current and the future to
achieve the goals.
HRM HRD
Table 1:
HRM is set of practices through know What kind HRD is set of systematic activities to enrichment
HRM vs. HRD of HR we need? And how can we get to them? employees by skills, knowledge, and experiences
What we do to them? To achieve goals. (improve performance) to meet what are needs a
current and the future to achieve the goals.
Include: Include:
HR Planning Organizational Development
Recruitment & selection Career Development
Training Training and Development
Compensation
Development
Career development
Performance management
Focus Focus for current job tasks. Willingness to accept the requirements of the new
tasks.
time Short term: to focus on specific deficiencies Long term: to enrich employee Skills and a variety of
tasks to address variables.
After all that, training and development is important, why? The most authors
agree that the process of training and development are complementary to each process,
and highlights its importance through preparing the current human resources and
providing them with skills, abilities and developing to willing to the future of those
resources and in order to meet the challenges and changes. The training process is the
basis in the light of do development. So, (Ongori & Nzonzo) indicated T&D of
employees improves communication in an organization, transfer of skills and
knowledge, improves job performance, encourages team work, boosts the morale of
employees and leads to job satisfaction. Various approaches are used to evaluate the
training programs but the commonly used is the reduction of accidents in the workplace
and decline in material wastage (Ongori & Nzonzo, 2011; 196). And clearly explained
(Vinesh, 2014; 215) Training and development is so important because:
Help in addressing employee weaknesses
Improvement in worker performance
Consistency in duty performance
Ensuring worker satisfaction
Increased productivity
Improved quality of service and products
Reduced cost.
Reduction in supervision.
Thus, can say that the importance of training and development highlights
through achieving job satisfaction and increase staff motivation, and also works to
offer help to employees through renew and enrich with the knowledge and skills
needed, and achieving a low turnover, and increase the ability to adopt new
technologies and methods by creating flexible for staff, and help resolve the troubles
of staff and to improve themselves, and increase efficiency in operations.
In sum, we can see what scope of HRD is? By following (table 3):
Organizational Development Career Development Training and Development
Table3: (OD) is the process of (CD) is a process to improve (T&D) as a process that aimed
Differentiatio developing the current reality of the both HR and enterprise performance. at the development and
n between OD, Organization into the better to fit It used career planning on improvement of human resources
CD, and T&D with changes in the external individuals level know their live job through continuing education to
environment and the working in sequential steps begin first career support them with core
environment through solving ladder until retirement age through qualifications to perform their
current problems and reduce the self assessment (skills, knowledge, functions effectively.
gap between departments and and ability) and there are methods to Training to current events.
employees with improve do that (workshops, teaching..). Development to prepare for the
cooperation, coordination and career management on organization future.
collective action, And to increase level, that takes into account what the
the effectiveness of the current needs to employees and what
Organization and the staff, and the future needs to organization, and
work into integrate the goals of taking the necessary steps to achieve
employees and the Organization. that career plan through performance
appraisals, management succession,
job rotation, training and learning,
and consultation.
To (Enhanced Organizational To (Enhancing both individual and Improvement and Development
Performance) organizational performance). of human resources
Through Through Through
Improve communication. Promotion, transfer, demotion, or Continuing education to support
Building teams & groups. exit. them with core qualifications to
Change management. perform their functions
Encouragement to collaboration..... effectively.
Phase 2: Design
The second phase of the training and HRD process involves designing the HRD
program or intervention. If the intervention involves some type of training or
development program, the following activities are typically carried out during this
phase:
Selecting the specific objectives of the program.
Developing an appropriate lesson plan for the program.
Developing or acquiring the appropriate materials.
Determining who will deliver the program.
Selecting the most appropriate method or methods to conduct the program.
Scheduling the program.
The design phase also involves selecting and developing the content of the
program. This means choosing the most appropriate setting for the program (e.g., on
the job, in a classroom, online or some combination), the techniques used to facilitate
learning (such as lecture, discussion, role play, simulation), and the materials to be
used in delivering the program (such as workbooks, job aids, web-based or web-
enhanced materials, films, videos, Microsoft power point presentations, etc.), (Kumar
& others, 2013; 37). That means, in this phase we must develop goals, budget, and
identify training methods (On and off the job).
Phase 4: evaluation
Finally, evaluation of HRD, that means the final outcome. Do HRD is successful
or not (opinions of partnership)? Do persons benefit from the HRD process or not
(extend of learning, changing of behaviors)? And do they achieve goals? Here
(Kumpikaite & Sakalas, 2011) According to Phillips (1996), explain evaluation can
serve a number of purposes within the organization. Evaluation can help to do
following:
Determine whether a HRD program is accomplishing its objectives;
Identify its strengths and weaknesses;
Determine its cost-benefit ratio;
Decide who should participate in future HRD programs;
Identify which participants benefited the most or leased from the program;
Reinforce major points to be made to the participants;
Gather data to assist in marketing future programs;
Determine if the program was appropriate;
Establish a database to assist management in making decisions (p.47).
Thus, the question here how we can know are HR enhance or not? Answer that,
Pareek (1978) according to Hamblin (1974) has summarized the various techniques
(38) discussed under his five-level model.
These are:
Reaction (6); Session reaction scales, reactions notebooks and participation,
observers records, studies of intertrainee relationships, end of-course reaction form,
post-reactions questionnaires and interviews, and expectations evaluation.
Learning (13): Pre-course questionnaires to instructors, programmed instruction,
objectives tests, essay-type written or oral examinations, assessment by trainees of
knowledge changes, skills analysis and task analysis, standardized tests of skill, tailor-
made techniques for evaluating skill, assessment by trainees of skill changes,
standardized attitude questionnaires, tailor-made attitude questionnaires, semantic
differential scales, and group feedback analysis.
Job Behavior (13): Activity sampling, SISCO and Wirdenius techniques, observer
diaries, self-diaries with interviews and questionnaires, appraisal and self-appraisal,
critical incident technique, observation of specific incidents, depth interviews and
questionnaires, open-ended depth techniques, and prescription for involving
management in the training process.
Organization (4): Indexes of productivity, labour turnover, etc., studies of
organizational climate, use of job behavioral objectives to study behaviour of non-
trainees, and workflow studies.
Ultimate value (2): Cost-benefit analysis and human resources accounting (p.294).
In sum, we can explain HRD process by figure (1);
Design
Develop goals, budget, and identify training methods.
Training / implementation
Training methods (On and off the job).
Evaluation
Opinions of Partnership, extend of learning, changing of
behaviors, and achieve goals.