Impact of Developmental Climate on Individual's Behavior in the Organization[dagger]

Abstract

'HRD climate' helps the employees to acquire traits that would enable them to execute their present or future expected roles and aids in developing their capabilities for Organizational Development. A person's behavior is the outcome of several factors or motives. Motivation is one of the important factors affecting human behavior. The present study makes an attempt to analyze and determine the relationship and impact of HRD climate on motivational need satisfaction (Role) of the individuals in the organizations. Five companies from different sectors that are in existence for more than two decades are selected for the study. The middle level managers of various departments are taken as samples. The questionnaires relating to HRD climate and motivational need satisfaction (Role) were administered to them. The findings indicate that in all the cases, the relationship is positive and in some cases, it is highly correlated, which shows that 'HRD climate' has a definite impact on motivational need satisfaction HRD of the individuals in the organization, which in turn, leads to the overall performance of the organization. INTRODUCTION A major challenge for any organization in this era of international competition seems to be 'survival and sustainability' amidst cut-throat competition. It is increasingly argued that the organizations, best able to meet the challenges will be those that can acquire and utilize valuable, scarce and inimitable resources (Barney, 1995). Human resources can fall into this category, particularly, if they are effectively deployed through appropriate human resource practices and management of organizational culture (Barney and Wright, 1998). Human resource being one of the important factors of production, HRD is needed to develop competencies of individual employees through its various interventions. In order to be developed, the individual should perceive that there is a climate favorable for their development. This responsibility lies with the HRD department which has to provide a proper climate in the organization conducive for employee development, termed as the HRD climate. LITERATURE REVIEW Human Resource Development (HRD) encompasses the development oriented activities of the organization. For an individual to perform productively, the climate prevailing in the organization needs to be conducive for his development. Various research studies have been taken up to determine and analyze the factors affecting the HRD climate prevailing in organizations. Jain, Singhal and Singh (1997), Rohmetra (1998), Alphonsa (2000), Kumar and Patnaik (2002), and Mishra and Bhardwaj (2002), etc. have conducted studies on the factors to be considered for analyzing the HRD climate in various organizations. In these studies, corporate philosophy, superior-subordinate relationship, training and employee development practices, OCTAPACE culture, etc. were considered to determine the HRD climate in various organizations like public and private sector organizations, banks, educational institution, etc. The literature on HRD climate provides a clear picture on the nature of the work undertaken in this field. Most of the researchers have followed the typology, 'HRD climate questionnaire' as developed by Rao and Abraham (1986). It had 38 items grouped under three categories: General climate, OCTAPAC culture and HRD mechanisms to assess the level of HRD climate. 'General climate' provide the views on the top management support for HRD; 'OCTAPAC culture' depicts the degree of openness, confrontation, trust, autonomy, pro-activity, authenticity and collaboration that exists in the organization and 'HRD mechanisms takes' into account potential appraisal, performance appraisal, training and development, career planning and development, and related activities. In the later days, researchers have made subtle changes to the instrument to fit their study. Later the researches shifted from not only analyzing the factors that contributed to the HRD climate in an organization, but also on the effect that the climate had on the effectiveness of the organization. …

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