International Journal of Management IT and Engineering

Higher Educational sector in India is facing several challenges in the present highly competitive, digital, technological and knowledge economy of the world. But most important challenge is to attract and retain skilled and competent academic work force particularly in the private and Self-Financed Colleges. There is acute shortage of competent or qualified workforce in the job market i.e. there is wide gap between demand from the industrial or service organization and supply of the workforce available in the job market. Thus it is essential to keep workforce to be more competent, dynamic, innovative and creative thinking, and more committed which is possible through continuous development of employees by providing developmental organizational policies particularly policies related to Human Resource, conducive or favorable work climate, challenging in the job, satisfaction in their job, etc. HRD culture is an important factor with collaborative approach for organizational beliefs, norms, structure, values, and HR practices influencing constant success and growth of any organization. To determine the vital HRD factors, the current study attempts to examine the influence of HRD climate on the Performance of academic employee and analyze the similarities and/or difference between public and private institutes of higher learning. Based on a survey among 456 respondent faculty members and applying ‘t’ test and Karl Pearson Correlation test, the findings clearly show that there is significant difference between Government and private and Self-Financed Colleges in the prevailing nature of HRD Climate and Performance of academic employees. However, there is no significant and positive correlation between HRD Climate and Performance of academic employees and thus the results of this study slightly warning to take necessary measures to enhance the academic Performance of the Colleges.