The role of human resource development (HRD) within organizations is changing as organizations become more learning-focused. HRD professionals need to help develop collective intelligence within organizations by eliminating knowledge silos and recognizing tacit knowledge embedded in human resources. They also need to shift from solely training-based development to fostering learning in various ways. The envisioned role of HRD is to support the business, informal learning, knowledge sharing, training, continuously design new methods, and change HRD practices to build the right type of HRD function.
2. • The role of HRD within learning
organizations is becoming clearer, but
many uncertainties remain for HRD
professionals, especially with regard to
the question of how to bring their new
roles into practice.
3. • The “learning organization” is an important
metaphor for HRD professionals to assist them
in :
• a) Developing collective intelligence with
in organizations and organizational forms
supporting such a need thus eliminating the
holding of knowledge in separate
compartments at different levels
4. • b) understanding the importance of
knowledge and in particular tacit knowledge
which has to be recognized and valorized in so
far as it is embedded in human resources
• c) moving from training based
development policies towards new policies
fostering learning in different ways
5. • Learning oriented organizations do employ a rich
bunch of change initiatives in which , no one type
of change is particularly dominant
• The main motivator for wanting to become a
learning organization is the desire to become
more client centered by continuous
improvement and innovation. However, more
people- oriented reasons such as improving the
quality of working life seem to play a role as well.
6. The envisioned role of HRD with in organizations
is to :
• Support the business
• Support (informal) learning.
• Support knowledge sharing.
• Develop and coordinate training
• Should continuously design and experiment
• with new methods to build right type of HRD
• Change HRD practices
7. The envisioned role of HRD with in organizations
is to :
• Support the business
• Support (informal) learning.
• Support knowledge sharing.
• Develop and coordinate training
• Should continuously design and experiment
• with new methods to build right type of HRD
• Change HRD practices