Strengthening human resources goals

Aprille S. Canlas

THE Department of Education (DepEd), through its Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development (BHROD), has been implementing ways to reexamine its organization structure over the years.

The DepEd has also been improving its capacity to attract, train, and retain the best of human resources.

In a convention a few years back, the DepEd brought together all HROD practitioners, and aligned initiatives and resources to strengthen the foundation of HR and OD in the Department.

The event was also a perfect time to explore how to best benefit from new technologies, high impact HROD strategies, and new ways of working to create an agile, efficient, and digital organization able to address the changing needs of the Department, its management, employees, and other stakeholders.

Topics discussed were HROD in the Global and Asian Landscape; Emerging HROD Systems and Initiatives in the Philippines; HROD in DepEd: Challenges, Directions, Framework, Strategies, and Interventions; Public Service Excellence through Quality Management System and Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM); Cultivating a Mindset for Growth and Development; and Leadership Excellence in Public Service

There were also parallel learning sessions on personnel services, learning and development (L&D), talent management system (TMS), and employee welfare and wellness.

The event also served as a venue to discuss the challenges that DepEd is facing, particularly in the aspect of HROD.

Back then just as it is now, it is a challenge how to respond to all the expectations of citizens, and at the same time, be open to advice, to reports, to feedback, and to assessment from the different sectors of society.

Most important of all, that every one of DepEd’s personnel have an even stronger commitment to the Department’s goals, its thrust, as well as its objectives and support for the reforms that are now being initiated.

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