1. Introduction
Pt. 1. General Background.
2. The strategic backcloth.
3. The emerging concept of human resource development.
4. Strategic human resource development versus human resource development strategies.
5. The human resource management versus personnel management debate and its implications for human resource development.

Pt. 2. Emerging Human Resource Development Themes.
6. Human resource development roles and relationships.
7. The emerging role of managers and staff in strategic human resource development.
8. Career development in downsized organisations.
9. Marketing the human resource development function.
10. The provision of learning support for non-employees.
11. Outsourcing: What stays in and what goes out.
12. Benchmarking human resource development.
13. Small and medium-sized enterprises and human resource development

Pt. 3. Organisation-Wide Learning Issues.
14. Total Quality Management and human resource development.
15. The learning organisation.
16. Human resource development and the corporate university.
17. Managing transformational change from a human resource development perspective.
18. The role of human resource development in creating synergy among business units and sub-units.
19. Operating in a global environment.
20. Working in the virtual organisation

Pt. 4. Organisational Values.
21. The contribution of human resource development to the development of an organisational value base: commitment, business ethics, managing diversity and environmentalism.

This texts seeks to establish the emerging role of HRD and to provide frameworks and guidelines for practitioners/students in a range of learning contexts. The text builds on the body of knowledge in the field, where appropriate, and provides new approaches to encompass the major themes impacting on individuals and organisations for the future.

(DON) Donated by Ms Karen Sweeney