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Upsurge
In HRD And Its Relevance To India
Ritu
Jain ,
Senior Marketing Manager, MindGuild
 We
all come into this world as trainers. No person in the stone age
ever hired a trainer or attended a “train the trainer”
seminar. And yet without any training, we wouldn’t have progressed
from spear makers to space walkers.
The knowledge
explosion started off with the Industrial Revolution. It has over
the centuries reached a level where the timelines between skill
acquisition and skill obsolescence are extremely short. The results
of this are the on-going need for updating skills. Adding to this
scenario is the exponential growth of the services sector to this
country’s national income.
HRD (a concept
developed by Leonar Nadler - foremost thinker and professional in
the 1970’s) is defined as a sum of three principal areas -
training, education and development. Keeping this definition in
mind, here are some of my thoughts on the topic.
Some clear
indications that Corporate India (the west was obviously several
years ahead) is coming to terms with and re-examining India's biggest
asset -Human Capital:
- The Finance
Minister provided soft loans to students wanting to pursue higher
education in India and abroad in his 2002 Annual Budget speech.
- The 2002
Budget laid down policies for contractual labour, termination
of employment etc.
- ESOPs
- Indian
software exports are expected to grow close to 50 % of exports
by 2008.
- Infosys
built their latest state of art office in a 50 acre area, complete
with three Food courts , a shopping centre , a spacious gym etc.
- Global
Outplacement and Temporary staffing majors set up base in India.
- HR Heads
were promoted to CEOs.
- NASSCOM
and other associations focused on leadership development, soft
skills, and seminars/training modules.
- Increase
in training companies and institutes.
- BPOs became
the new “In thing” for companies from various sectors.
- A new
emphasis on Human Processes
- Demand
for skills in disciplines such as: Psychology, Organisational
Behaviour, Sociology etc.
- Popularity
of Gurus such as Shiv Khera and HR tools such as E.I., coaching
, mentoring.
- Training
-the trainer becoming the buzzword.
- Trend
towards outsourcing training, e-learning
- Corporates
getting into Education. etc.
While there
may still be a long way to go before India fully accelerates its
Human Capital Development, by the looks of it we have definitely
started on the right path.and satisfaction. .
-Graphic done
by Himani
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