5.1 Human Resource Development

Question 1

What are the tasks that cover HRD?

Answer 1

Training
Career Development
Talent Management
Performance Appraisal
Employee Engagement and Empowerment

Question 2

Training vs Career Development

Answer 2

1. Provides learners with knowledge and skills needed for their present job
2. Support that an organization provides employee professional growth, such as movement to projects or positions within an organization

Question 3

Talent Management

Answer 3

Recruitment, Hiring, Development, and Retention of Employees

Question 4

Performance Appraisal

Answer 4

Evaluating an employee’s current or/and past performance relative to performance standards

Question 5

Engagement vs Empowerment

Answer 5

1. Emotional and cognitive motivation toward work-related goals
2. Psychological experience represented by four dimensions:
   - self-determination
   - meaning
   - competence
   -impact of individual’s role in the organization

Question 6

HRM vs HRD

Answer 6

HRM focuses on employee management and the present needs of an organization. HRD refers to the growth of an employee in various dimensions that could include ones that are outside the job (Future focused).

Overlap: Appraisal and Training

Question 7

HRD vs ORG DEV

Answer 7

HRD focuses on employees only. Organizational focuses on the entire organization and improvement via behavioral science and technology

Question 8

HRD vs Training

Answer 8

Similar to HRM, training focuses on developing KSA’s important for a specific job. HRD focuses on multiple dimensions of a person that can transverse outside the job.