Response to the following questions and rewrite the post in own words:
1. In your opinion, what HRD skills or competencies does an HRD manager need? How are these skills and competencies learned?
In my opinion the skills and competencies an HRD manager need are HRD programs such as training, orientation, mentoring, and career development. Especially in smaller organizations there may be no training department so they will have to carry out the HRD. Also they will need to coordinate with the HRD professionals in the following way:
Supervisors need assistance of HRD professionals for functional behavior and behavioral training for the employees. Company's goals and strategies are designed by the top level management but are executed by the HRD professionals. Futhermore, experts provide necessary guidance to implement them. They mainky should coordinate with the HRD professionals to manage the change process, making employees aware about the change and motivate them to accept change.
2. Which challenges to HRD professionals discussed in this chapter will directly affect your present or future working environment? What additional challenges do you foresee affecting HRD?
The challenges of Human resource development is to transfer information to its member that will improve both the individual and the company. Human resources development "is a set of systematic and planned activities designed by an organization to provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job demands" (Werner &DeSimone, 2011, p. 4). Most or all of the six challenges described by Jon M. Werner and Randy L. DeSimone in the textbook Human Resource Development 2011, p. 22 will affect my present or future working environment; However, competing in a global economy, eliminating the skill gap and addressing ethical issues and dilemmas in a proactive and effective manner would be the three challenges that would continue to directly affect the working environment. Each of the challenges affects the working environment in that it makes it harder for employees to achieve the company goals. Competing in a global economy As technology continues to increase the need for employees with advance technical skills is on the demand. The challenge for HRD professionals now and in the future would be the ability to attract such individuals and retain these individuals; "Successful organizations must hire employees with the knowledge to compete in an increasingly sophisticated market" (Werner & DeSimone, 2011, p. 23). HRD professionals should research the needs of these individuals since not everyone is motivated by money; for example as more single parents enter the market an attraction may be on lowering the cost and onsite child care or providing the option to work from home.
Reference
Werner, J.M. (2016). Human Resource Development, Talent Development, Seventh Edition. Mason: Cenage Learning.
Werner, J.M., & DeSimone, R.L. (2012). Human resource development (Sixth edition). Mason, Ohio: South: Western, Cengage.