Question

What is training and development in human resource management?

Answer 1

Human resource management regards training and development as a function concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the job performance of individuals and groups in organizationalsettings. Training and development can be described as "an educational process which involves the sharpening of skills, concepts, changing of attitude and gaining more knowledge to enhance the performance of employees".[1] The field has gone by several names, including "Human Resource Development", "Human Capital Development" and "Learning and Development"

The name of the discipline has been debated, with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in 2000 arguing that "human resource development" is too evocative of the master-slave relationship between employer and employee for those who refer to their employees as "partners" or "associates" to feel comfortable with.[2][3] Eventually, the CIPD settled upon "learning and development", although that was itself not free from problems, "learning" being an over-general and ambiguous name, and most organizations referring to it as "training and development".[2]