What is HRD? 3 HRD activities that need to be focused on by businesses

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High-quality human resources are the "treasure" of every business. They are the solid "pillars" to "lift" the business to new heights. Therefore, HRD activities always need to be focused

What is HRD? It is an abbreviation of the phrase “Human Resource Development”. However, there are still many people who do not really understand the meaning of this phrase. Please explore the following article of Navigos Search to have an accurate and comprehensive view of HRD!

1. What is HRD?

HRD (Human Resource Development) is human resource development. HRD includes training activities, guiding employees to equip them with necessary skills to work effectively, creating conditions for them to promote and develop better in the future.

HRD has a complementary effect to HRM (human resource management) to achieve the common goal of helping businesses own high-quality human resources. Businesses need to focus on HRD to constantly develop. Through HRD, businesses will build strong resources to make good use of external factors, expand scale and operate markets.

HRD activities need to be organized by enterprises according to certain processes. The implementation time of an HRD program can be as short as a few hours, days or even years. This depends on the training purpose and the personnel development plan of each enterprise or company.

Find out what is HRD

2. Importance of HRD

Once we know what HRD is, we continue to go deeper to find out the importance of HRD activities. The benefits of HRD are demonstrated as follows:

For Businesses

The results obtained from HRD definitely bring the most benefits to businesses:

  •  Improve employee productivity, performance and quality
  • Promote the sense of responsibility and sense of duty of the staff.
  • Save effort and cost for management.
  • Ensure the stability of personnel in the enterprise.
  • It is the basis for maintaining and developing high-quality HR
  • Creating favorable conditions for applying modern technology to the  process of business operation and administration.
  • Create a competitive advantage with competitors in the same industry in the market.

For employees

HRD activities also result in employees who participate:

  •  Build relationships between employees and managers, employees with other colleagues in the business.
  • Build a professional working style.
  • Meet current and future work needs.
  • Satisfy the development needs and perfect the capacity of each employee.
  • Train your thinking ability, create new habits and look at work. From there, they have a solid foundation to develop their full potential.

HRD activities bring many benefits to businesses and employees

3. HRD activities need attention

Following the concept of what is HRD and the importance of HRD, we will learn about HRD activities that businesses need to focus on:

Carry out retraining and refresher training for employees

Training in the time when personnel enter the business is essential. However, it is equally important to re-train and add more knowledge and skills for them when they have become "hard" employees.

In the age of industrialization, modernization and constant digital transformation, the job market is always a never-ending battle. As a business manager, you must have a vision, foresee the changes of the times.

Thereby, you need to promptly implement retraining activities, supplementing knowledge for the staff so that they are not left behind or lagged behind in the profession. This is also a necessary condition for your business to own a high-quality staff and raise a competitive edge in the market.

Assign work in accordance with employee capacity

Only when arranging jobs in accordance with the capacity of each employee can they bring into full play their abilities and bring benefits to the business.

High positions always require worthy competence and if you feel that an employee deserves a higher position, do not hesitate to promote them. And if you realize that the person is not suitable or capable enough to take on that position, consider not "lifting" them to a new position.

The way to use smart people is to discover their potential early on when they are "young and green". Then, slowly foster until they are strong enough, fully qualified to take on a great responsibility. It's time for you to give them a new title, a higher position as a worthy reward for their relentless efforts.

Choosing qualified people, assigning the right jobs and training them at the right time will help businesses gradually create high-quality human resources. Whether the future of the business will develop brilliantly and maintain a strong position in the market is due to the contributions of these talents.

Building a working environment

The working environment greatly affects the performance of employees, so businesses need to create a friendly and appropriate working environment for their employees.

First, the workplace needs to ensure infrastructure, working equipment and some natural conditions such as temperature, light, sound, etc. With that, the new staff will be comfortable, motivated and focused on work.

Next, senior managers in the business must create a fair and transparent "playing field", allowing employees to freely come up with creative ideas. Thus, employee performance and efficiency will always be at a high level, even exceeding your expectations.

Businesses need to focus on building a professional working environment

4. How to apply HRD effectively?

For every business, human resources are always an important factor affecting the ability to develop and grow. Therefore, when understanding what the benefits of HRD are, how to effectively apply HRD is a difficult problem for businesses. You can refer to the following suggestions:

Maintain the stability of existing human resources

Managers can do this by developing appropriate rules and regulations for employees and businesses. Try to create a fair working environment, periodically evaluate capacity, working method and ensure the right job arrangement for optimal results.

Effectively develop available human resources

In order to effectively develop the available human resources, you must develop and implement appropriate compensation, remuneration and promotion policies. Along with that, you also need to constantly improve the working environment to promote employee creativity and enhance dynamism and healthy competitive spirit among employees.

Develop policies to attract and retain talent

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