Objectives of HRD Audit

 

"The basic objective of HRD audit is to know how the various units are

functioning and how they have been able to meet the policies and guidelines

which were agreed upon; and to assist the rest of the organisation by identifying

the gaps between objectives and results, for the end-product of an evaluation

should be to formulate plans for corrections of adjustments" (Gray).

The objectives of HRD audit are:

a. To review the organisational system, human resources subsystem

in order to find out the efficiency of the organisation in attracting

and retaining human resources.

b. To find out the effectiveness of various personnel policies and

practices.

c. To know how various units are functioning and how they have

been able to implement the personnel policies, and

d. To review the personnel system in comparison with organisations

and modify them to meet the challenges of HRD management

Human Rights and Sustainable Development

Human Rights and Sustainable Development

Sustainable human development expands choices for all people-women, men and children, current

and future generations-while protecting the natural systems on which all life depends. Moving from a

narrow, economy-centred approach to development, sustainable human development places people at

the core

Sustainable human development aims to eliminate poverty, promote human dignity and rights, and

provide equitable opportunities for all through good governance, thereby promoting all human rightseconomic,

social, cultural, civil and political.

Human rights and sustainable human development are interdependent and mutually reinforcing.

Development is unsustainable where the rule of law and equity do not exist; where ethnic, religious

or sexual discrimination are rampant; where there are restrictions on free speech, free association and

the media; or where large numbers of people live in abject and degrading poverty. Similarly, human

rights are enhanced when gender equity or poverty reduction programmes empower people to

become

The 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development states that development is a human right. A

fundamental human freedom is the freedom from want. Poverty is a human rights violation, and

freedom from poverty is an integral and inalienable human right.