Human resource development: perceptions of bank employees in India

HRD has assumed prominence as a dynamic and creative means to achieve increased productivity and profitability, improved morale, better industrial relations and career development of employees; all eventually leading to achieve overall goals of mega-sized organizations. In the process of HRD, many challenging issues like treatment of HRD expenses as capital expenditure or revenue expenditure, retention of the human resources developed in the HRD process of organizations and resistance shown by the employees against HRD process are being experienced. Like in other organizations, HRD is also widely practiced in Indian Banking Sector.

In this backdrop, the present book makes an empirical study to examine the perceptions of bank employees regarding HRD practices and measures and to see as to what extent the pertinent challenges in the HRD process are being resolved and as to what extent the prevailing claims for HRD are empirically true.

This study is mainly directed towards knowing the perceptions of bank employees with regard to the major contents of the HRD philosophy, the various elements of HRD climate, the major problems and difficulties in the management of HRD process and the process of resolving the pertinent challenges of HRD practices and measures. Moreover, the study covers the relationship between the levels of expectations and the levels of satisfaction as perceived by the employees from various HRD practices and measures. As such, the book will be very much useful to the practicing human resource managers looking after HRD in the banking world, as also to the researchers, policy framers and advance learners in the field of Human Resource Management.