This document outlines the key topics covered in human resource development, including: the foundations of HRD and influences on employee behavior; learning approaches and assessing development needs; designing, implementing, and evaluating effective training programs; socializing and orienting employees; skills and technical training; coaching and performance management; employee counseling and wellness services; career management; management development; organizational development and change; and diversity training.

1. Human Resource
Development

2. Foundation of Human Resource
Development
-Introduction to human resource development:
The evolution of human resource
development.
The relation between HRD and HRM
training.
Challenges to organization and to HRD
professionals.

3. Influences on Employee Behavior
-Model of employee behavior.
-External influences on employee behavior.
-Motivation.
-influence on employee behavior.
-Other internal factors that influence
employee behavior.

4. Learning and HRD
-Learning and instruction.
-Maximizing learning.
-Individual differences in the learning
process.
-Learning strategies and styles.
-recent development in instructional and
cognitive psychology.

5. Assessing HRD needs
-Introduction.
-Strategic organizational analysis.
-Task analysis.
-Person analysis.
-Prioritizing HRD needs.
-The HRD process model debate.

6. Designing Effective HRD Programs
-Defining the objectives of HRD
interventions.
-The “make versus buy” decision.
-Creating or purchasing HRD programs.
-Selecting the trainer.
-Preparing a lesson program.
-Scheduling the HRD program.

7. Implementing HRD Programs
-Training delivery methods.
-on the job training method.
-Classroom training approach.
-Self-Paced/computer-based training.
-Media and methods.
-Some final Issues concerning training.
-Program implementation.

8. Evaluation HRD Programs
-The purpose of HRD evaluation.
-Models and frameworks of evaluation.
-Data collection.
-Research design.
-Ethical issues concerning evaluation
research.
-Assessing the impact of HRD evaluation in
dollar terms.

9. Employee Socialization and
Orientation
-Socialization: the process of becoming
insider.
-Various perspectives on the socialization
process.
-The realistic job preview.
-Employee orientation programs.

10. Skills and Technical Training
-Basic workplace competencies.
-Basic skills/literacy programs.
-Technical training program.
-Interpersonal skills training.
-Role of labor unions in skills and technical
training programs.
-Professional development and education.

11. Coaching and Performance
Management
-The need for coaching.
-Coaching and performance management.
-Definition of coaching.
-Coaching to improve poor performance.
-Maintaining effective performance and
encouraging.
-Superior performance.
-The effective of coaching.

12. Employee Counseling and Welliness
Services
-An overview of employee counseling
programs.
-Employee assistance programs.
-Stress management.
-Employee Welliness and health promotion
programs.
-Issues in employee counseling.

13. Career Management and
Development
-Defining career concept.
-Models of career development.
-The process of career management.
-Roles of career management.
-Career development practices and
activities.
-Issues in career development.

14. Management Development
-Describing the managers job.
-Roles and competencies.
-Making management development
strategic.
-Management education.
-Management training and experience.
-Designing effective management
development programs.

15. Organization Development and
Change
-Organization development theories and
concepts.
-Models of planned change.
-Designing an intervention strategy.
-Types of interventions: Human process –
Based.
-Types of interventions:Technostrural.

16. HRD and Diversity: Diversity
Training and Beyond
-Organization culture.
-Labor-market changes and discrimination.
-Adapting to demographic changes.
-Cross-Cultural and training programs.
-Human resource development programs.
-Other human resource management
programs.