| dc.description.abstract | The study was carried out in order to assess the opportunities and challenges of Human
Resource Development towards organizational performance with specific reference to World
Vision Kibaale programs. The specific objectives of the study were; to find out the HR needs
of employees of World Vision Uganda, Kibaale programs; to find out the HRD opportunities
provided to employees of World Vision Uganda, Kibaale programs; to find out the challenges
encountered in human resource development and to establish the ways in which HRD could
be improved for better performance of employees of World Vision Uganda, Kibaale
programs. The study was conducted using descriptive case study research designs. The study
had 25 respondents from the targeted population of 30 and all of them were World Vision
employees. The study employed only qualitative research methods to analyze the data. At the
end of the study, it was established that employees in World Vision, Kibaale programs have a
lot of human resource needs that needs to be gapped and these ranged from financial
management skills, communication skills and succession planning. Secondly, there are
enough HRD opportunities available for employees in World Vision Uganda under Kibaale
programs and these includes; proposal writing, computer application skills, planning and
organizing. However, World Vision encountered a number of challenges when undertaking
HRD among its employees and these included; change management, culture and attitude
which is too rigid to change among employees, technology and skills to handle new HR
challenges; employee’s values and attitudes, life styles and habits and lack of adequate
knowledge of new practices as well as working environment and increased staff turnover. It
was also concluded that there is a need to adopt new strategies to improve HRD for better
performance of employees in World Vision Uganda, Kibaale program. In light of the latter, it
was recommended that there is a need for World Vision to entirely implement career training
programs especially for new employees and entirely be oriented towards their co-workers and
job responsibilities; it also needs to invest more in job rotation of employees from one
department or work to the other. | en_US |
