The paper assesses the general issue of career plateau and burnout facing many organisations and individual workers that pose more challenges to the smooth functioning and continuity of the business and organisation. By analysing key causes of career plateau and burnouts, the paper also...

The paper examines the status of ownership preference of HRD function and responsibility in Nepali banks to make it strategic. It investigates into the dilemma whether the top management, or HR and HRD managers should own the responsibility for formulating HRD policy, plans and strategies and...

The paper examines the issue of human resource (HR) surplus in modern organisations and explores different perspectives on managing the surplus employees. Based on an analysis of insights, observations and practices in contemporary management world, the paper has explored the strategic...

In managing the rapidly changing environment context, human resources and talents are probably the only organisational resource that managers can resort to, in their pursuit of sustainably steering the organisation through the turbulent course, including the one of the COVID-19 pandemic now....

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its ensuing crises are not only huge and unpredictable, but also multifaceted and far-reaching. To steer their organisations through the most turbulent time of human history, managers should develop their human resources strategically. However, the...

In view of a long-felt need to adopt the strategic factors of human resource development (HRD), this paper explores and evaluates the presence of strategic HRD factors instrumental to achieve theoretical HRD outcomes, and devise an SHRD model. An exploratory and analytical research approach was...