Title: HRD climate in National Rural Health Mission in India - an empirical study

Authors: Khushboo Jain; Satish Kumar; Ashok Solanki

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur-302017, India ' Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur-302017, India ' Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur-302017, India

Abstract: In today's competitive environment, skilled human resource can play an important role in the success of any organisation. The developmental climate in an organisation helps the employees to utilise their skills and competencies for success and achieving organisational objectives. For this purpose, an affable human resource development (HRD) climate is extremely important. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of HRD climate prevailing in National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) at Rajasthan in India and also a comparative analysis of permanent and contractual employees working in the NRHM in India. After reviewing the earlier work and instruments available for assessing the HRD climate, an improvised, self-developed and well tested for content validity questionnaire is used. This questionnaire was administered to 300 respondents (150 permanent and 150 contractual) from the organisations taking into consideration the availability of employees and their interest to give responses to the questionnaires. Mean score and percentage of each dimension was analysed. The study revealed that human resource development climate is better for permanent employees compared to contractual employees. The findings indicate significant difference in the perceptions of developmental climate prevailing between permanent and contractual employees in NRHM Rajasthan.

Keywords: human resource development; HRD; National Rural Health Mission; NRHM; India; permanent employees; contractual employees; mean score; employee engagement; superior-subordinate; training and development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBHR.2013.054523

International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 2013 Vol.4 No.1, pp.81 - 99

Received: 28 Feb 2013
Accepted: 19 Mar 2013

Published online: 21 Jun 2014 *

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