Importance of HRD

Human resource development (HRD) can be defined as a set of systematic and planned activities designed by an organization to provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job demands. Learning is at the core of all HRD efforts. HRD activities should begin when an employee joins an organization and continue throughout his or her career, regardless of whether that employee is an executive or a worker on an assembly line. HRD programs must respond to job changes and integrate the long term plans and strategies of the organization to ensure the efficient and effective use of re-sources.

All resources of production are important like machine, capital, money, land and building etc. in order to ensure the achievement of production of a running factory. Over all supremacy has to be given to the element of human resource. Man itself ensures the economical use of resources by applying wisdom. Hence, any amount of efforts spent on training of human resources will yield its appropriate result and higher productivity of the organisation The prospects and growth, productivity and profitability of an organisation depend maximum on effective utilisation of such resources employed in the effort of achieving company objectives. The achievement of an organisation can be seen as a result of cooperation and hard work at all the levels of functioning of an organisation. Any huge capital investment in developing infrastructure of a training institute and its running will, in the years to come, show its results in achieving higher productivity and profitability.

HRD is a process in which the employees of an organization are continuously helped in a planned manner

· Acquire or sharpen their capabilities that are required perform various functions associated with their present expected future roles.
· HRD helps in maximizing the utilization of human resource for the achievement of individual and organizational goals.
· HRD helps to provide an opportunity and comprehensive framework for the development of human resource in an organization for full expression of their talent and manifest potentials.
· HRD helps in increasing skills of employees it helps to develop the constructive mind and an overall personality of the employees.
· HRD develop the sense of team spirit team work and inter team collaborations.
· HRD also used to develop the organizational health culture and effectiveness and to generate systematic information about human resources.
· HRD helps in creating the healthy working environment it helps to build good employee, employees relationship so that individual goals matches with organizational goal.


Conclusion:

Human resources are the assets which do not find a place for mentioning in the balance sheet of a company. But it is one of the most important assets as human resources are a resource of production as well as they are utilising other resources of production like a material, machines, money etc.