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...

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”....

Argues that cultural influences may not only affect a professional’s implicit concept of what constitutes effective practice, but may also affect researchers’ explicit theories. Suggests that this means that many HRD practices, processes, procedures and language are specific to cultures....