Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 7

An Assessment of Human Resource Development Mechanisms with reference to Textile companies in Tiruppur District of Tamilnadu

*Formerly Dean and Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, Anna University of Technology, Tirunelveli, India

**Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, Regional Campus, Anna University, Tirunelveli, India

Online published on 2 July, 2016.

Abstract

Human Resource Development is an integrated system were many sub mechanisms are embedded together. Human Resource Development Practices are vital for all organizations since they directly influence the application of existing capabilities as well as inner potential of its human resources. Successful implementation of Human Resource Development practices involves taking an integral look and making efforts to use as many mechanisms as possible. The textile companies taken up for this research work utilize Training and Development, Performance Appraisal, Quality of work life, Employee engagement, Welfare measures as Human Resource Development mechanisms. These mechanisms are the best tool which helps employees to acquire the required competencies for improving their quality of life and that would enable them to enhance the productivity for better organizational performance. In this perspective for this research work we have taken up 811 samples from 385 textile and textile allied companies from Tiruppur district of Tamilnadu. We have used mean, standard deviation, correlation and regression analysis to prove the significant relation and t-test, ANOVA and Chi-Square analysis has been used for hypothesis testing with the help of SPSS.

Keywords

Human Resource Development (HRD), Training and Development, Performance Appraisal, Quality of work life, Employee Engagement, Welfare Measures