PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES AT NON-MANAGERIAL AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS - THE IMPACT ON ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the interdependence between the professional development of human resources in organizations, both in non-managerial and managerial positions at various levels of management. Professional development of human resources is one of the key factors that contribute to organizational development, and also one of the dominant factors of organizational success. The interdependence between the organizational and the individual perspective of organizational development is a subject of permanent scientific research. It is impossible to express organizational development as a sum of individual contributions, due to the complexity of this category which depends of numerous variables in the comprehensive model of organizational development. Professional development of human resources is only one of the variables of the above-mentioned model of organizational development, and the objective of this paper is to analyse their specific nature, roles and interdependence. Specifically, the research will be directed to the identification of the variables of the comprehensive models of organizational development, and moreover, a detailed elaboration of the impact of human resources development in this context will be presented. A specific approach would be implemented in terms of modeling the professional development of human resources, the processes, strategies etc. Individual development will be also taken in consideration as a key sub-component of professional development, and, consequently, as an implicit variable in comprehensive models of organizational development. Methodologically, appart from the theoretical elaboration, a blended methodological approach will be implemented, based mainly on qualitative research methods, such as case study; also supported by case-specific quantitative methods, that would contribute for better explanation of the relations and interdependence between the above-mentioned variables. Finally, research conclusions and recommendations will be presented.