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Human Resource Management

Notes 11.5 Keywords

Development: Represents activities that prepare an employee for future challenges and
responsibilities.

Educational Experiences: Educational experiences benefit those who are employed and who are
required to be gradually equipped for other positions in the organization.
HRD: A planned way of developing individual employees, groups and the total organization to
achieve organizational goals in an atmosphere of mutual trust and cooperation.
HRD Matrix: The HRD Matrix shows the interrelationships between HRD instruments, processes,
outcomes and organizational effectiveness.
Human Resource Management: A process of bringing people and organisations together so that
the goals of each are met.
Human Resources: The sum of knowledge, skills, attitudes, commitment, values and the like of
the people of an organisation.

Open Door Policies: Where open door policies exist, employees are free to walk into any manager's
office with their problems and seek solutions to such problems.
Productivity: The ratio of an organisation's output to its inputs.

Training: Training concerns people already employed with the organisation and whose jobs are
so defined that we are able to identify what should be the desired job behaviours.

11.6 Review Questions

1. Define and explain the meaning of HRD.

2. What is the difference between HRD and HRP?
3. What is HRD matrix meant for?
4. What are open door policies?
5. Discuss the need of HRD in modern organisations.
6. Discuss the importance of HRD both at the micro and macro levels.

7. 'HRD is nothing but looking at the development of manpower of an organisation in the
light of its requirements. Comment.
8. ''Man, of all the resources available to man, can grow and develop" – (Drucker). Comment.

9. HRD is needed at national as well as organizational level. Explain.
10. Discuss HRD practices in Indian organization with proper examples.
11. Discuss how companies use human resources management to gain competitive advantage.

Answers: Self Assessment

1 T 2. F

3. T 4. F
5. T 6. T
7. F 8 F

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