Capacity and Capability Building for National HRD

Abstract

Human resource development (HRD) scholars have grappled with the question of developing theoretical and conceptual frameworks that capture the complexities of building human capital capacity and capability at a national level. Relying on national HRD (NHRD) and international development literatures, we develop a multi-level framework for understanding capacity and capability building that is useful for assessing national development priorities for countries in general. We theorize that NHRD priorities must consider the simultaneous development of financial, industrial, and workforce capacities at the national, organizational, and individual levels. The conceptual framework considers positive as well as negative NHRD synergies that can emerge from linking financial, industrial, and workforce capacities to capability-building efforts at the national, organizational, and individual levels. In doing so, the framework contributes to the NHRD-model-building approaches in the extant HRD literature.

Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations

“…argues persuasively that the management and development of people will remain key to competitive advantage for both organizations and countries. In this regard, the field of national human resource development (NHRD) has received considerable attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners (McLean 2006;Wang and Swanson 2008;Alagaraja and Githens 2016). The field has advanced along a number of lines of inquiry.…”

“…First, NHRD is concerned with the implementation of large-scale systemic policymaking initiatives that benefit multiple stakeholders (Rana, Ardichirlli, and Zaing 2017;Oh et al 2017;Oh, Ryu, and Choi 2013). Second, NHRD contributes to both economic and social development (Cho and McLean 2004;Alagaraja and Githens 2016) and adopts a multiple beneficiaries CONTACT Thomas Garavan t.garavan@napier.ac.uk approach. Third, NHRD is contextual and embedded within complex institutional and social structures.…”

“…Responding to these calls, NHRD scholars have started to devise new approaches to investigate different contexts and to give greater consideration to the use of multilevel approaches. For example, Alagaraja and Githens (2016) propose an integrative framework that considers capacity building at national, organizational, and individual levels and focuses on financial, industrial, and workforce capacities. Anikin (2017) undertook a multilevel analysis of the role of occupational structures and its impact on access to HRD and found that the incidence of HRD was highly contextualized within the structure of occupations and the inequalities within them.…”

Enabling Biomimetic Place-Based Design at Scale

“…Capability-building involves a focus on skill development, education, and training. The term is used intentionally here as distinct from capacity building, which prioritises workforce development and organisational capacity [37]. Using this lens of innovation diffusion, we identify key existing barriers to the implementation of BPD at-scale by industry and government.…”

Procedure for the continuous improvement of human resource management

“…The reality is that the context of Human Resource Development exists in the interplay of individuals, organizations, and national forces in all countries (Alagaraja and Githens, 2016), particularly linked to human resource management in the enterprise. Contemporary scientific literature highlights the achievement of a high sense of employee commitment to the organization, considering both the humanist component, as the person gets socially involved to the community, and the economic component, as it is associated with the increase in labor productivity or high performance (Cuesta, 2015).…”