the organization especially on the critical business issues,
technological changes and gaps in skills of employees were
always catered by HRD function (R.A, 1995) but today’s
dynamic environment requires more from HRD i.e. to shape
business strategy (R.A, 1995). This concept has been
discussed in detail by Mikko Luoma (2000) in his article
“Investigating the Link between strategy and HRD” that it is
common view to consider HRD as the assessor of skills needs.
As the organizations have division of labor on the basis of
roles and competencies, therefore when organization fails to
achieve its goals through existing competencies; skill
competency gap arises which can only be filled through HRD.
He further adds that HRD becomes strategic when its helps
organization to achieve its objectives while paving the way
towards its destination through its rational, deliberate and
sequential process of assessing the needs till evaluation of
outcomes in the form learning and improvement. However, it’s
strategic in nature as organization’s strategy will be on stake
till it is being taken care of. (Luoma, 2000)