The HRD climate of an organization plays a very important role in ensuring the competency, motivation and development of its employees. The HRD climate can be created using appropriate HRD systems and leadership style of top management. The HRD climate is both a means to an end as well as an end in itself. In the recent past simple instruments have been developed to measure the HRD climate in organizations. Climate is the atmosphere in which individual helps, judge, reward, constrain and find out about each other. It influences morale and the attitudes of the individual towards his work and his environment. Human resource development deals with competence building culture building and commitment building. Competence and commitment can be built on a continuous basis in a certain type of culture. The Railway Board is responsible for administration and management of Indian Railways. The Board operates under the supervision of the Union Minister of Railways who is assisted by the Minister of State for Railways. Human resource challenges are critical for the efficient functioning of the railways. At present, the railway has total staff strength of 1.6 million. They are being equipped to cope with the changing environment, with the induction of better technology, work practices, automation and computerization to ensure safe, reliable train operations and services. An amount of Rs. 21 crores has been sanctioned for implementation of an enterprise resource planning covering all functions of the human resource management system prevalent in the Indian railways. This would not only provide adequate transparency to the employees through prompt, user friendly self service, but is also expected to implement the best practices in the HR field and enable detailed analysis of the human resource skills.
Competency, Instruments, Computerization, Adequate
