Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Summary  
 
Personnel Development (PD) involves investments of precious 
resources in people with the hope that they would remain in the 
organization to contribute to the organization and the society.  Results 
of PD initiatives to an organization are numerous. While training and 
development alone may not be serving as panacea for all organizational 
problems, the whole range of interventions for PD carried out by a 
Personnel Department in association with various internal and external 
consultants helps in increasing organizational stability, promotes 
organizational learning, heightens performance and profitability, builds 
an organizational climate of openness and trust, develops a culture 
of collaboration, boosts organization’s image and leads to its overall 
vibrancy, pro-activity and development. PD is the foundation on which 
an organization can confidently build its strengths. Full utilization of 
human resources would ensure that the organization has the optimum 
number of employees, the right level of skills, the requisite willingness 
and preparedness for moving ahead with technological advancements 
and competitiveness. As Douglas McGregor puts it, ‘the average human 
being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek 
responsibility’.