INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HRD)

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HRD)

1. Definition

   • A set of systematic and planned activities designed by an organisation to provide its members with the necessary skills to meet current and future job demands

2. Evolution of HRD

   • Early apprenticeship programs
     • Artisans in 1700s
     • Artisans had to train their own workers
     • Guild schools
     • Yeomanries ( early worker unions )
   • Early vocational education programs
     • 1809 - DeWitt Clinton's
     • 1863 - President Lincoln signs the Land-Grant Act promoting A&M colleges
     • 1917 – Smith-Hughes Act provides funding for vocational education at the state level
   • Early factory schools
     • Industrial Revolution increases need for trained workers to design, build, and repair machines used by unskilled workers
     • Companies started machinist and mechanical schools in-house
     • Shorter and more narrowly-focused than apprenticeship programs
   • Early training for unskilled / semiskilled
     • Mass production (Model T)
       • Semiskilled and unskilled workers
       • Production line – one task = one worker
     • World War I
       • Retool & retrain
       • “Show, Tell, Do, Check” (OJT)
   • Human relations movement
     • Factory system often abused workers
   • Establishment of training profession
   • Emergence of HRD