The role of Training and Development (T&D) in HR is fast changing with the changes in the field of management. It is no longer a simple process of arranging a T&D program. Many skills are becoming obsolete and, therefore, T&D has taken the complex form of total knowledge management of manpower at various levels of operation. With more and more outsourcing of jobs, the role of T&D is getting extended, thus needing more coordination, planning and control. The article looks at some of the problems of T&D in HR and suggests some T&D practices to suit the present and the future needs of organizations.

We live and work in a world of knowledge and skill. Every human activity needs up-to date knowledge and required skills to perform it. The activity may relate to manufacture of various goods for satisfying the needs of people or may extend to different types of services to help the society. Even animals need knowledge and skill to exist, to hunt and perpetuate their species. Similarly, organizations too cannot survive without training and development of employees. There are lots of misgivings about the role of T&D in modern Human Resource Management (HRM). HRM is undergoing a paradigm shift in its content, structure, role, utility and methods and its form is moving through a fluid process of reform and transformation to perform better. Many areas of HRM are still hazy and not perceived properly. The old traditional and stereotyped process of knowledge of T&D is becoming obsolete with the tremendous growth in technology, change in human perception and aspiration and information explosion. It is time that more attention is paid to bring about a more dynamic system of T&D through re-engineering and implementing tailor-made learning processes. Modern T&D centers have to be built in order to train the future HR leaders who in turn will pass on the knowledge and skills they acquire to future HR personnel and millions of executives. In future, the success of enterprises will depend upon the new revolutionary T&D system in HRM.

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