Human Resource Development: A Case Study of Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Human Resource Development: A Case Study of Kathmandu Metropolitan City

The human resource development is essential to the success of every organization, it is one of the domains of human resource management that is widely studied. Because of a number of macro-level trends in recent decades, including globalization, technological innovation, increasing competition, and changes in organizational structure, the HRD focus has become more global, necessitating the need to relate performance in any part of the world. The purpose of this study is to determine how human resource development has been taken in the context of its different dimensions by the employees of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Human resource development has greater focus on training and development, personal development, career development and performance management which can enable the KMC administration to make appropriate policies and programs to strengthen the human resources and enhances their efficiency. The qualitative case study research design was used to get the perceptions of employees. Four research questions were set to seek the answers from the participants/ informants of the metropolitan city, which were related to HRD and its dimensions. Data were gathered in verbatim form, transcribed, coded and generated theme using qualitative data software Atlas-ti. This study concludes that all the HRD dimensions; training and development, personal development, career development and performance management were effective to boost human resource development in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City.