An Empirical Study on HRD Mechanism with Special Reference to Training and Development System in BSNL, Odisha

Organsations grow with the strength of their resources and market demand. The most dynamic resource is the human resource of an organisation. In order to ensure better productivity and utilisation of human resource, it is important to create tools, instruments and mechanisms that would facilitate better performance of the manpower by honing their competencies, motivating them, evaluating their performance and creating a conducive environment. These mechanisms may consist of performance management, training and development, potential appraisal, reward management, quality of work life and so on. Out of all the HRD mechanisms, the most pivotal one for augmenting employee competency, there by employee productivity is training and development mechanism within an organisation. It is thus extremely necessary for the organisation to create a robust training and development system which would identify the training needs scientifically, impart the right training as required and also give proper scope for utilisation of the newly learnt areas. In the telecom industry, considering the present scenario of growth and opportunity, focus on training and development is inevitable. The study endeavours to find out the impetus on training and development in BSNL Odisha. The study expressed that there is a satisfactory implementation of training and development mechanism, though further improvement is required in this domain for an organisation.