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Talent Development Functions


24 Minute Human Resources

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The four human resource development functions:
  • Training & Development
  • Performance Management and Appraisal
  • Career Planning and Development
  • Organization Development

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Human Resource Development deals with training and developing employees with the aim to improving their performance levels across the organization. Job requirements are continuously changing so staff in an organisation should be continuously developed to stay relevant to the job needs.
Here are 4 essential Human Resource Development (HRD) functions in any business:
  • Training and development (T&D) is the heart of a continuous effort to improve employee skills, knowledge and organizational performance. Training is providing workers with knowledge and skills needed for their present jobs, while development is learning beyond today’s job. Employees need to be prepared to cope with the organization as it changes and grows.
  • Performance Management and Appraisal: Performance Management is a goal-oriented process used to maximize the productivity of employees, teams, and the overall organization while performance appraisal is a formal system of reviewing and evaluating the individual’s and team’s performance.
  • Career Planning and development: an ongoing process whereby an individual sets career goals and identifies the means to achieve them. Career development is a formal approach used by the organization to ensure that employees with the proper qualifications and experiences are available for promotion or reassignment when needed.
  • Organization development: is a planned and systematic attempt to make the organization more effective by creating a more positive behavioral environment.
Human resource development should involve training an employee after he/she is hired, providing opportunities to learn new skills, distributing resources that are beneficial for the employee's tasks, and other developmental activities.
Remember, there is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that’s not training them and leaving them employed within the organization. Transform your thinking and look forward.

"Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.” Amit Kalantri