Human Resource Development : An International Perspective

'Human Resource Development: An International Perspective' examines HRD theory and practice, and reviews organisational, team and individual oriented HRD strategies. It considers contemporary issues relating to the development of human resources, organisation development and the process of learning, both formal and informal, within organisations. Providing a critical commentary on current HRD models, issues, approaches and controversies, it will also include a research feature reporting cross-cultural research issues and contemporary developments within the field of HRD, drawing on research and literature from an international base. * Provides the reader with a clear understanding of key concepts within the academic field of human resource development and considers the range of interpretations of HRD, alternative and contrasting perspectives, and critically evaluates a number of models found in the literature. * Examines the international literature on the potential contribution of human resource development at individual, organisational and macro ecomony levels of analysis. * Explores a number of contemporary themes relating to ethics and HRD, benchmarking and competencies and highlights the different treatments of these topics in UK, US, European and Asian Pacific HRD literature. * Considers in detail a range of organisation-wide HRD issues and the types of solutions proposed within the literature. * Focuses on the extant field of management development and identifies contemporary theories and trends in an international, comparative and cross-cultural context. * Explores a range of HRD strategies and approaches of a formal, informal, individual and team nature and examines how new technology is facilitating the emergence of new HRD delivery strategies.