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Learning and Development

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Learning and Development (L&D) is a specialized HR function and a great tool for linking skill gaps, cultivating workplace culture, increasing employee engagement and working on employee retention rates. Learning and development is a continuous process of empowering and encouraging employees’ professional skills to drive better organizational performance (Garavan, 2021). L&D is characterized as part of a business’s overall talent management plan, where learning is used to gain, nurture, maximize, and retain talent (Niazi, 2011).   Learning can be defined as the gaining of knowledge, skills and attitudes (Harrison, 2005). Development can be defined as the broadening of knowledge to match an individual’s development goals (Sadler-Smith 2006). The final outcome of L&D is to develop or change employee behavior for the better, to help them do their work better and increase performance (Niazi, 2011).   One must keep in mind that many use learning, training and...