CHRIST
GRADUAT
E CALBAYO
SCHOOL
ALLEN
CAMPUS
ACT
IVIT IN
HUMAN RESOURCE
Y #2
MANAGEMENT
Summ
er
2021
Submitted by:
MARJO O. VIRTUDES
Submitted to:
DR. MYLA P. ADIATON
Instructor
1. What is Human Resource Development?
Answer:
Human Resource Development is defined as a practice that combines
training, organization development and career development efforts to encourage
improvement of individuals, group and organizational performance. It can be also
defined as a set of systematic and planned activities designed by the organization to
provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current
and future job demand.
2. What are the four basic sectors of Human Resource Development? Explain
each.
Answer:
The four basic sectors of Human Resource Development are the following:
1. Personal Development. It covers activities that improve awareness and
identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate
employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of
dreams and aspirations.
2. Professional Development. Is learning to earn or maintain professional
credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending
conferences, and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been
described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative
stage.
3. Performance Management. Is the process of ensuring that a set of activities
and outputs meets an organization’s goals in an effective and efficient manner.
Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a
department, an employee, or the processes in place to manage particular tasks.
4. Organizational Development. Is a critical and science-based process that
helps organizations build their capacity to change and achieve greater
effectiveness by developing, improving, and reinforcing strategies, structures,
and processes.
3. What are the importance of Human Resource Development?
Answer:
Human Resource Development is important because it develops competent
workforce, it Improves relations with employees, it provides opportunity for career
development, it enhances productivity and improves profitability, it improves job satisfaction,
it clarifies the roles, it brings about system wide chance and it develops a proper climate in
the organizations.
4. Give the concepts of Human Resource Development?
Answer:
Human resource development is a positive concept. It is based on the belief
that an investment in human beings is necessary and invariably bring in substantial
benefits to the organization. It aims at overall development of human resource in
order to contribute to the well-being of the individual, organization and the society at
large.
Human resource development is a part and parcel of human resource
management. It is the main function of human resource management. Every
organization and its management have the responsibility to develops its human
resources if at all it wanted to remain in business, face the competition and march
towards prosperity and growth. In the modern times of growing awareness the
human resource development is the task number one for any organization.
Human resource development means those learning experiences which are
organized for a specific time and designed to bring about the possibility of behavioral
change. Human resource development in the organization context refers to the
process whereby the workers are continuously helped in a planned way to –
Acquire or sharpen capabilities required to perform various tasks and
functions associated with their present or future expected roles
Develop their general enabling capabilities as individuals so that they are able
to discover and exploit their own inner-potential for their own and/ or
organizational development purposes and
Develop an organizational culture where “superior/subordinate” relationships,
”team-work” and “collaboration” among different sub-units, are strong and
contribute to the professional well-being, motivation and pride of work.
5. Differentiate Human Resource Development from Human Resource
Management?
Answer:
Human Resource Development Human Resource Management
Is defined as a practice that combines Is a function within an organization
training, organization development that focuses on recruitment,
and career development efforts to management and providing direction
encourage improvement of for the people who work on the
individuals, group and organizational organization.
performance.
It can be also defined as a set of It deals with the issues related to
systematic and planned activities people such as compensation, hiring,
designed by the organization to performance management,
provide its members with the organizational development, safety
opportunities to learn necessary skills and wellness, benefits, employee
to meet current and future job motivation, communication,
demand. administration, and training.
It is a proactive function. It is a service and reactive function.
It seeks to develop the total It seeks to improve the efficiency of
organization and its culture. people and administration.
It is the responsibility of all the It is considered to the responsibility
manager. of human resource.
It focuses on the autonomous work It focuses on salary, economic
group, job challenges and creativity reward, job specification for
for motivating people. motivating people.
Functions can be informal like Functions are mostly formal.
mentorship.
