Dr Rao is the founder president of the National HRD Network
and the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Sciences (ISABS). Dr
Rao had worked as a professor at the premier management institute of India -
the IIMA, Ahmedabad from 1973 - 1994. After leaving the IIMA, he
started working for the Academy of Human Resource Development which
was set up with support from RMCEI of IIMA. He worked as its Honorary Director
for some time. As HRD started growing Larsen & Toubro instituted HRD Chair
Professorship at XLRI Jamshedpur. Dr T.V. Rao moved to XLRI as L&T
Professor to set up the Centre for HRD. Dr Rao has also contributed majorly in
the field of competency mapping and defines competency mapping as the process
of identification of the competencies required to perform
successfully at a given point of time.
A new Human Resource Development system emerged in India in
1974 with Dr T.V. Rao and Dr Udai Pareek heading the movement.