EVALUATION OF THE EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM

Managers nowadays are aware of the importance of human resources development and needs to measure the impact of investment into the employee development to the company success. There are various methods and measures for expressing dependence between the investment to employee development and company success. This article, based on various researches of authorities within the domain of human resources development professionals, is focusing on the method comparing Return on Investments into Human Resources Development programs (HRD). Kirkpatrick‟s methodology was expanded by many experts in this domain, and this article describes also the limitations of the measurement of return on investment of human resource development initiatives or programs in providing the kind of information needed by decision makers in the company. This could be the challenge for HRD professionals, who can evaluate also qualitative data as inputs of the evaluation.