What is role of HRD Professional?

With change in the organizational environment the role played by the HRD professionals has also undergone a change. At present the HRD Professionals acts as:

Strategic adviser to help the decision makers on issues related with HRD. They also play the role of an HR systems designer and developer by assisting the HR management in designing and developing HR systems in an organization to increase its performance.

They also act as organizational change agents by helping the management in designing and implementing change strategies to transform the organization. The result is more efficient work teams, intervention strategies, quality management and change reports. The role of organization design consultant is also played by them when they advised the management on work systems design and efficient use of available human resources. HR professionals work as instructional designer or learning programme specialist when they identify the needs of the employees and develop and design the required learning programmes. They also prepare materials and other learning aids for these programmes.

An HRD professional dons the role of career counselor when he assists individual employees in assessing their knowledge and skills to development realistic career development plan for the employee. The role of a coach or a performance consultant is played by them when they advised line managers about the appropriate intervention designed to improve the performance of the group or an individual. HRD Professionals act as researchers when they assess the human resource development practices and programmes with the help of appropriate statistical procedure to find out their effectiveness and then they communicate the results to the top level management.