GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

           Human Resource Development (HRD) is the process of helping people to acquire competencies and skills so as to ensure their usefulness to the organisation in terms of both present and future organizational conditions. It also helps the employees to understand their own capabilities better so that they can best utilize them and also fulfill their expectation both professional and personal. Let’s now discuss the goals of HRD.

1. Organisational Effectiveness: Human Resource Development ensure an adequate number of persons with sound industry background at different operative, supervisory and managerial levels in order to facilitate organisational effectiveness. It also inspire diversity in the work force. It trains the leadership.

2. Employment and retention:  A major goal of the HR department is employing the right persons for the right job profile. When there is a perfect match between talents and duties only then will the employees perform at their optimum level. This will lead to error-free work done in a short time frame. Higher efficiency will lead to happier employees. Here, the department also has to ensure the environment in which employees is comfortable and conducive. A happy workforce has a direct impact on increased profits.

3. Integrating People into Business: Jobs are kept enlarged and enriched. This nurture team work and provides opportunity for learning new and varied skills. This makes work more satisfying and meaningful. Thus, HRD ensure integration of human resource into business.

4. Powers and laws pertaining to HR:  The top management level can also be called the Elite group. They are the decision makers of the organization. They include Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Information Officer. All these posts come with a high level of power along with a huge package of responsibility. Their goals and objectives, plans and strategies affect the entire organization. But the one officer that has maximum impact on the employees is the Chief Human Resources Officer. His decisions and plans can create jobs and reshuffle existing staff. His goals to ensure that the employees are working at an optimum level so that there is maximum profit for the business.

5. Employability: It means the ability, skills and competence of an individual employee to seek gainful employment of his own. Therefore, HRD raises the skills of employee to keep them motivated. It makes employee employable. It provide training to young people to increase their job knowledge and skills.

6. Indispensability of HR: Human Resource is the mainstay of a business organization. How is a company going to operate without its workforce? A happy worker will be a more profit generating employee. Incentives, when directly related to performance, can generate a lot more than reprimand. Why an employee is under-performing has to be solved at a broader company level rather than resorting to blame game. If every employee in your organization is satisfied with his job profile and remuneration you have created a profitable company.