HRD Climate Survey at Bokaro Steel Plant, India using OCTAPAC Factors-an Empirical Evidence

Retention of human resources, developing and satisfying them are the crucial challenges for the organizations under the conditions of globalization. The people are the most important assets of the organizations and they need to be nurtured incessantly to be more effective in this challenging environment. A study on Human Resource Development (HRD) climate may enlighten us whether the organizations are really ensuring the dynamism, motivation, competency and effectiveness of the employees or not. This article is based on the study of HRD Climate at Bokaro Steel Plant, India. HRD climate of an organization can be measured by OCTAPAC factors envisaged by T.V.Rao which means openness, confrontation, trust, autonomy, proaction, authenticity and collaboration of employees in an organization. Here we have used 7 factors of OCTAPAC in a questionnaire devised by XLRI, Jamshedpur and surveyed to collect data. The survey was done among the 60 executives and 140 non executives (n= 200) of the Plant. Main objectives of this study were to examine the existing HRD climate at Bokaro Steel Plant and to measure the satisfaction level of the executives and non-executives of the company towards existing HRD practices. After analysis of data we found that the employees of the Bokaro Steel Plant are only satisfied on few factors of OCTAPAC.