Introduction to L&D

0:28 Hello, learners. Welcome back to the course on AI in human resource management. We move to the second lecture of module six, where we'll look into one of the most important functions of HR today: learning and development, and how AI has integrated into it. I'm Dr. Abraham Cyril Issac. I'm an assistant professor at the School of Business, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Now, when you look into learning and development, we had an initial understanding of human resource management as something which is essentially a function to recruit people or for basic selection of manpower.

0:55 But things have changed. You know, how you condition the manpower, how you utilize or capitalize on them as a resource, how you train them, how you develop them. That's how learning and development as a core vertical has emerged in the industry in today's world. Now, when you talk about learning and development in HRM specifically, Learning at work is all about acquiring new information. It's about mastering skills and adopting behaviors that lead to better job performance. Now, when you try to understand how AI has helped learning and development, you see that With the involvement of AI,