The human resource development concept is examined in some detail, showing how it differs from ″training″. The structural economic adjustment pattern in ″third world″ countries is examined and some of its implications for the practice of HRD in organisations based in such countries are...

Many articles have been written in recent years on trainers' roles. However, much of what has been written was often prescriptive. Besides, the suggestion has often been made that trainers need to operate as change agents within their organisations. Yet, only in very few instances had there been...

A two‐day workshop for trainers in Nigeria, designed to enable trainers to influence managers about training by clarifying the formers' own perceptions, is reviewed. These perceptions were focused on trainers' feelings about the powerful managers and on their understanding of the role of...