"Human resource development (HRD) is a large field of practice but a relatively young academic discipline. For the last two decades, Foundations of Human Resource Development has fulfilled the field's need for a complete and thoughtful foundational text. This essential text provides an...

What do you do with scenarios? -- Problems with the practice of strategic and scenario planning -- Methods for developing scenarios -- Seven approaches to using scenarios -- Connecting scenarios to a purpose -- Generating strategies -- Windtunneling strategies with scenarios -- Testing decisions...

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