Explaining the Human Resources Training and Improvement Paradigm: Focusing on the Individual Development Model (IDP)

Today, training and improvement of human resources is one of the main strategies to achieve human capital and positive adaptation to changing conditions as two competitive advantages of organizations. In recent years, there have been significant and extensive changes in the field of education, which is called the change in the teaching-learning paradigm. One of the emphases of this paradigm shift is the use of different and combined methods in training and improving human resources. Therefore, this study was conducted to explain the paradigm shift in human resource training and improvement: focusing on the Individual Development Planning (IDP).

This is a  review-analytical research method with a review of theoretical literature in books written in the field of training and improvement of human resources and the use of published articles in the field of education and curriculum of personalized development, human resources and improvement was done in domestic and foreign magazines in the years 2010-2019, after explaining the importance and necessity of improving human resources to change the paradigm of training to learning in improving human resources, and emphasizing this paradigm to use combined methods and characteristics of new paradigms in human resource training and improvement and theoretical foundations were discussed; Among the most important models of human resource development, the Individualized Development Planning model (IDP) is extensively studied, including the definition, goals and characteristics of the individual development plan, the six-stage process of individual development planning, and finally summarizing and concluding.

The Individual Development Planning (IDP) is a model for human resource training and improvement that focuses on identifying the necessary experiences for the growth and improvement of each individual in order to achieve the common goals of professional development in organizational improvement and promotion.

One of the manifestations of employee empowerment is training. The Individual Development Planning (IDP) is a model for human resource improvement planning; The present results of the study showed that this model of planning can be considered in the form of a continuous and dynamic process for employee excellence and achieving organizational goals.