Building Organisational Vitality from the Inside Out: A Human Resource Development Perspective

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between human resource development and organisational vitality. Human resource development policies play an important role in developing, appreciating and retaining talents. They also foster employees’ commitment or accountability, which motivates them to act and work or perform their work in a more flexible and adaptive way and pushes them to move towards excellence in organizations. Therefore, planning an organizational strategy or long-term structure should take into account that such structure or strategy aims at producing and supplying the added-value products and services should address developing and implementing human resource development policies that will result in the resourcefulness of employees in a given organization (Legge, 2006). In conclusion, it was stated that the adoption and practice of human resource development programs which emphasize on the cognitive, capabilities and behavioural features of the workforce promotes and improves on organisational vitality. Therefore, it is recommended that in developing the capabilities of the human resource, that training and development packages and content be aligned with the market needs and expectations of the business context. This suggests the need for organizations to engage actively in research and development programs designed to capture and integrate knowledge about the environment in a way that allows for effective repositioning of the organizations human resource to tackle such issues.