What do you mean by employee development? Why is it needed?

Employee development means to improve overall effectiveness of the employees at their current posts and to prepare them for handling more responsibility in future. In other words, the objective of Human Resource Development (HRD) in an organisation is to prepare those types of managers who not only perform well in the present but are also able to handle more responsibility at higher posts in the future.

Need for Employee Development

The need for employee development is mainly for the following reasons:

(i) To make the managers able to handle more responsibilities

(ii) To prepare ways of promotion for the managers

(iii) To generate ability in the managers for establishing relation between cause and effect

(iv) To create ability in the managers for taking effective decisions.