Few empirical studies have examined the effect of individual values on the importance attached by individuals to training and development in organizations. We argue that individual values play an important role in decision-making processes (i.e., for commitment to training and development) and...

Cross-cultural differences in managerial values, attitudes, systems and practices are an important theme in the contemporary management and human resource management literature, (Adler et al., 1986; Hofstede, 1980). This debate tends to be conceptualised in terms of two strands of argument. On the...

Dear reader, welcome to strategy in the desert of the real! This is essentially an exploratory work in which we attempt to address the question – How do we make strategy in half an hour? Traditional business strategy can be neatly summed up in two words: “formulate” and “implement”....

Research on values has provided significant insights at individual, organizational and societal levels of analysis. One area that remains under-explored is how the individual values of managers influence decision-making on human resource (HR) issues. This article explores this relationship...

This paper sets out to critically challenge five inter-related assumptions prominent in the HRD literature. These relate to: the exploitation of labour in enhancing shareholder value; the view that employees are co-contributors to and co-recipients of HRD benefits; the distinction between HRD and...

John Seely Brown notes that context must be added to data and information to produce meaning. To move forward, Brown suggests, we must not merely look ahead but we must also learn to look around because learning occurs when members of a community of practice (CoP) socially construct and share...

Humanism has long been considered a cherished worldview underpinning human resource development. As such, it occupies a privileged status within the field, and in the main, its central tenets have gone unchallenged, despite massive changes in the economic, sociological, and technological...

Levels of analysis perform an important function in framing research and practice in human resource development (HRD). The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of HRD from the individual, organizational and community/societal levels of analysis. The paper highlights both the...