What Is HRD?
An applied field, HRD focuses on solving individual and organizational performance problems. Whether the organization is for-profit or non-profit, a school or a family, the central processes of human relating and learning are applied to elevate performance.
More precisely, HRD is systematic interventions designed to teach, empower and free individuals to relate constructively and think productively for organizational and social benefit.
The goals of HRD are:
- to develop new sources of capital that can be leveraged to enhance organizational productivity, including the sources of potential competitive advantage of human capital, information capital, organizational capital and marketplace capital;
- to help individuals, groups and organizations anticipate, adapt to and create change;
- to enhance the quality of life for individuals.
Ultimately, HRD enables the individual and the organization to generate maximum outputs while investing a minimum of finite resources.
As finite resources become scarcer and changes in the environmental requirements and conditions accelerate, HRD strategies and skills will belong in the repertoire of every person in every type of workplace. This can be seen in the variety of jobs in which HRD graduates are applying their skills.
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