HRD practices and employee performance – an empirical investigation in Indian Life Insurance Industry

The present study makes an attempt to investigate difference in perception of employees of organizations understudy regarding HRD Practices and also the relationship of different HRD practices with Perceived Employee performance in context of Indian life insurance industry. The researcher had gathered responses from 327 employees of four big life insurance companies namely, LIC, SBI LIFE, ICICI, and HDFC selected according to their market share. The findings of the study revealed that companies are different with regard to Training & development and career planning according to perception of employees. As far as relationship of HRD practices with perceived employee performance, then the results asserts that all HRD practices have strong positive and significant relationship with employee performance. Out of all the practices the employee counseling have highest correlation with perceived employee performance.