David McGuire's student-friendly introduction looks at Human Resource Development on an individual, organisational and societal level analysing how HRD can play a major role in organisational innovation, in developing communities and society and in operating on a cross-national and international...

Here, leading scholars in the field present an essential guidebook for the human resource development profession. Drawing on an extensive knowledge base, Swanson and Holton update their classic single volume compilation of the foundational materials of the profession