The Relationship of HRM and HRD
Traditionally, some writers suggested that HRD is a component of HRM in which HRD supports the HRM function in employees’ training and development and the notion of training and development fitting in or integrated with HRM as in the ‘HRM’s wheel’ (Guest, 1987) as seen in Figure 1 below. All the four components of HRD, namely; training and development, performance appraisals and management, career planning and development as well as change management components was advocated as positioned under the ‘umbrella’ or function of HRM along with other components such as recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, employee and industrial relations as well as safety & health.