• If people have to make things happen, they need a set of
‘circumstances’ to make them happen.
• However, it is the people that create ‘circumstances’ that
can help them and others to make things happen.
• HRD is the process of enabling people to make things
happen. • It deals both with the process of competency development in people and creation of conditions (through public policy, programmes and other interventions) to help people apply these competencies for their own benefit and for that of others. DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT • Physical, intellectual, emotional, social, moral, political, spiritual and all other forms of developments are important. Physical Development • People cannot function or make things happen unless they are physically well developed, healthy and free from disease.
• Thus food, nutrition and freedom from disease become
important.
• People need to earn their food and living by working for it.
• They need to engage themselves in productive activities for
which again a combination of both physical development and intellectual development are important. Intellectual development • Intellectual development comes through the process of education and socialization. Social Development • Social development involves developing the ability to live as a member of the society or a group and contribute to it, at the same time deriving benefits from it.
• The need of coexistence of all human beings
makes this development imperative. Political Development • Political development ensures human dignity through freedom of expression, democratic participation and an opportunity to influence things that is turn influence the individual’s living. Moral and Spiritual Development • Moral and spiritual development is required to bring order, discipline and peace into life and ensure that one person’s comfort does not become his neighbor’s poison.