Functions of Human resource development: Human resource development seeks to achieve the goals and objectives of an effective manner through developing the employees of the organization.

Development functions: these functions relate to the development of the employees and their competencies for the effective job performance. Given highly competitive nature of the business today it is crucial for organizations to develop the skills and competencies of employees at all levels for achieving the goals and objectives of the organization effectively. Appropriate programmes such as training of workers or operatives, and supervisions on job specific skills for improved job performance, management development programmes for management for the managers for providing them with opportunities to learn, grow, and change, in hopes of producing over the long term a cadre of managers with the skills necessary to the function effectively in the organization and forecasting a learning environment wherein all the employees of the organization are learners, paving the way for permanent change of behaviour necessary to adopt to a highly dynamic business scenario.