Human Resource Development (HRD) is

Human Resource Development (HRD) is an important and very attention receiving discipline of present time. HRD researchers have developed new theories and conceptual frameworks that address a broad range of phenomena of interest to the HRD profession (Torraco, 2004). A key area of inquiry has been to try and figure out the current boundaries of HRD (Metcalfe and Rees, 2005) but defining HRD has not been so straightforward, and the writers and researchers are continuously debating the issue, and there seems to be no consensus, despite of the fact that numerous efforts have been made to define HRD (Abdullah 2009).
HRD is considered by scholars of Business Administration as a sub discipline of Human Resource Management (HRM), concerned with developing productive skills by imparting them training. HRM scholars, Werner and DeSimone (2006 p.5) defined Human Resource Development (HRD) as: “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”.