A Study of HRD Climate and its Impact on Job Satisfaction and Job Behavior of Indian Defense R&D Employees

Environments nearly everywhere have become more turbulent as organizations are facing cut-throat competition, ever increasing customer demands and employee retention difficulties; Indian Defense R&D sector is no exclusion to this. Now there are raised expectations even about the services that the HRD function provides in these organizations. In Indian Defense R&D sector, since last decade, a major emphasis is being placed on HR issues like planning, staffing, appraising, compensating and training and development. But the HRD Practices in this sector needs to be strike a balance between the strategic organizational needs and needs of its employees. It is believed that different aspects of HRD Climate viz. - valuing employees, training and development, personnel policies, mentoring etc. - when implemented systematically, can help this sector in meeting the present competitive challenges and can add value to employee's job satisfaction levels and positive job behavior. This research attempts to study the status of prevailing HRD Climate in one of the Government supported Chandigarh based laboratory of Indian Defense R&D sector. The study reveals the impact of HRD Climate on Job Satisfaction and Job Behavior of the employees.