Higher education institutions are basically HRD agencies (human resource development) set up for developing human resources in a country. Time has come to realize the significance of developing human resources engaged in education sector and make adequate investment in developing staff engaged in teaching - learning delivery system. With fast developing technologies, changing environment and growing world, members of educational institutions need to constantly update their knowledge, sharpen skills and improve their methods. Unfortunately, most educational institutions neglect development of their faculty and staff. Research studies show that it is development of human resources that contributes for organizational success irrespective of their size, nature of ownership and control. In a changed environment with globalization at its full swing, universities and other higher educational institutions need to reassess their human resource policies and evolve programmes for redefining their human resource development priorities that deal with recruitment, employee induction and placement, appraisals and assessments, training and development, reward mechanisms, retention policies, motivation, empowerment and job rotation for developing enabling climate. Subject of HRD climate in university level higher education sector has not been much researched till date. In this paper, it is attempted to study whole gamut of HRD climate in universities and other equivalent higher level academic institutions by eliciting employee perceptions on HRD climate for which the University of Kashmir, Srinagar is selected as the main focal point of study.
HRD climate, HRD mechanism, HRD, Globalization
