Human resource development climate a perceptual study of management academicians

Organization's success is determined by the skills and capabilities of its human resource due to which the importance of people and the challenge of developing them becomes the decisive aspect for the evaluating HRD climate prevailing in business organizations in the current vibrant and fickle environment. The continual mounting concern for human resource management signifies the importance of competent human as a greatest asset in an organization. HRD is one of the important functions of HRM and it is a process through which people are helped in a way to acquire competencies. Study of HRD climate is important for all organizations and educational institutes are not at all an exception, furthermore the rapidly emerging B-schools across the central zone stimulate to study the climate of academic institutions which is one of the sources of supplying pillars in terms of competent students to the nation. The study is aimed at assessing the extent of Developmental climate prevailing in academic institutions in central zone of India. Data was collected from the employees of selected management institutes using structural HRD climate questionnaire. The data was analyzed using statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation and Z-test. The results indicate that there is an average HRD climate accessible in the management institutions leaving plenty of scope for development and the perception of academicians regarding the HRD climate do not differs significantly on the basis of gender and qualification but it differs significantly on the basis of age.