MOD003340 - Enhancing L&D: Strategies for Developing Human Resources

This essay discusses the concept of human resource development, emphasizing the importance of learning and development interventions in enhancing employee skills and organizational productivity. It highlights how companies like Zara and Marks & Spencer utilize learning and development programs to train employees, analyze consumer preferences, and improve overall performance. The essay also references Beevers, Rea et al.'s work on workplace learning and development, focusing on essential skills such as communication, work management, and teamwork. Furthermore, it touches upon continuous professional development and evidence-based human resource management practices, underscoring their significance in maintaining and growing employee knowledge and skills to achieve organizational objectives. The essay concludes by reinforcing the value of investing in human resource development to unlock the potential of both new and existing employees.

Developing Human
Resources

INTRODUCTION
Developing human resource is a concept in which the event source of the organization are
required to be provided training and career development opportunities which will help them to
grow and develop in the organization. Resources are the most important part of any organization
and in order to increase the productivity of a company it is essential for an organization to
develop the key competencies of individuals that enables them to perform the current as well as
future jobs that has been assigned to them. In order to develop human resource learning and
development plays an important role. Learning and development refers to the systematic process
that has been used by human resource department to enhance the skills knowledge and
competency of employees to get better productivity of the employees. In order to understand the
value to providing human resource development in real life company Zara can be considered.
Zara is a multinational retail apparel brand that as its specialty in adapting fast fashion and
selling products like clothes accessories beauty perfumes with their shoes and many more. This
essay contains assessment of learning and development interventions that has been finished by
an organization during development of human resource management and the various methods
that has been identify to develop learning and development in the employees.
MAIN BODY
Human resource management refers to the strategic approach that has been used by an
organization to effectively and efficiently manage people in the company in order to enhance
their productivity and gain competitive advantage in the market. Human resource management is
designed in such a manner that it can be able to maximize the performance of employees in the
organization in accordance to the strategic objectives of employer. As human resource
management has their focus to enhance the productivity and performance of employees in the
organization it includes the most important aspect to enhance the performance that is learning
and development. Learning and development is not limited to the extent of University courses
and school courses but also it requires to be provided to the organization to their employees so
that they can be able to enhance their skills and knowledge to work with the organization. A
large organization Zara has also use proper learning and development program in order to
enhance the skills of their employees. This is a large organization who achieved success with the
help of their employees has the train their employees in such a manner that they are able to

analyze the taste and preferences of the customers who visited their stores. Learning and
development that has been provided buy Zara to their employees not only help the employees to
develop their skills and knowledge but also helps Zara to earn more business from the market. In
this manner Zara used learning and development in their organization to provide better training
to the new employees as well as existing employees to have knowledge regarding the mindset of
consumers who visited their stores. Apart from Zara, another organization that has been
considered to understand the effect of learning and development program in the organization is
the marks and Spencer. Marks and Spencer is a large multinational organization who provides
various products to their customers such as clothing home and food products. In order to provide
all these products either they are related to clothing home products of food products it is essential
for the organization to analyze the taste and preferences of the consumers. The marketing
department of the organization is directly connected with the consumers in the market and
requires to analyze and observe the needs and wants of customers. The learning and development
program and suggestions that needs to be provided to the marketing department employees to
analyze the consumer will help the employees to develop themselves but also helps the company
to enhance their productivity. Apart from this providing learning and development session to the
employees to help them in in managing the routine work with proper coordination in the team. It
will help the employees to enhance their knowledge and skills that are required for their future
development and also helps the company to enhance their productivity of the employees in the
organization.
According to the viewpoint of Beevers, Rea et al. (2020), In the book learning and
development practice in the workplace it has been identified that learning and development plays
a very important role in an organization. In order to develop various skills of employees and the
company communication skills work management skills and teamwork skills are considered as
the most important skill that needs to be enhanced in employees by every employer. In order to
provide learning and development to the employees and employer is required to make the
employees learn about the requirements and objectives of the work that they need to be manage
during their teamwork. The requirements and objectives of the work are clear to the employees
and it will help them to set better planning and coordination of the work and helps to meet the
objectives. It also helps the employees to manage their work in effective manner. Every
organization should understand the value of learning and development in their human resource

department so that they can be able to enhance the potential in new as well as existing employees
of the company. In the book of Beevers, Rea et al. (2020), the methods that has been outline to
focus on the human resource development in the organization also involve the continuous
professional development of employees to be followed in the organization. Continuous
professional development refers to the action that has been taken by various organization to
maintain update and grow the knowledge as well as a skill that are required in a employees to
complete their professional rule in the organization. There are cell potential benefits of
continuous professional development to both the management as well as learners. The benefits to
the management continuing professional development are the improved skills and confidence
special status job variety and satisfaction and many more. The learners are also benefited from
this continuing professional development as it helps them to become more creative and generate
interest towards the new approaches and methods that has been used in the work. The continuing
professional development also followed the large organizations like Zara and marks and Spencer
as these organization organized learning and development sessions for their employees in every
equal intervals. This activities for the employees not only help the employees to regain the
abilities with the help of learning and development sessions but also help them to enhance their
productivity and achieve future growth in the market.
There are many organizations that uses evidence based human resource management
practices. Evidence based human resource management practice is a procedure which helps in
organization evaluate the decision process against the export superior and real experience and
data that has been available with the company. As the decisions are to be evaluated against an
evidence that is the reason it is known as evidence based human resource management practices.
There are several ideal resource management practices that are evidence based and are used by
large organization. It includes a proper process such as identification of problem and pose an
answerable question the second step in this evidence based human resource management
practices to develop hypothesis and then collection of data is to be included in the third step.
CONCLUSION

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