The Role of Human Resource Development in Transitioning from Technology-Focused to People-Centered Knowledge Management

2002 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Alexander Ardichvili
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Resource Development

Human Resource Development as a Knowledge Management System

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claretha Hughes ◽  
Matthew W. Gosney
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Management System ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge

The crux of the challenge in bridging the scholar-practitioner gap in Human Resource Development is in creating effective mechanisms for the transfer of knowledge between scholars and practitioners. Emerging literature on the topic of knowledge management, and of knowledge management systems, provide a compelling point of view in which to consider the scholar-practitioner gap in HRD. In the chapter, knowledge management systems, as a functional outcropping of systems theory, are considered along with the use of logic models to develop and evaluate organization and program effectiveness. Preliminary research results conducted by Hughes and Wang (2015) gives further support to the notion that considering HRD as a knowledge management system may provide a framework for bridging the scholar-practitioner gap.

scholarly journals What HRD Is Doing—What HRD Should be Doing: The Case for Transforming HRD

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Torraco ◽  
Henriette Lundgren
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Perspective

Human resource development (HRD) is no longer expected to be the primary agency for promoting learning and development among employees. Today, HRD is diffused and integrated into a broad range of leadership and supervisory roles. As more responsibility for learning and development is assumed by others, what is the role of HRD? Although HRD has largely adapted to sharing more of its traditional responsibility for learning and development, the field has also encountered challenges and criticisms. We juxtapose recent adaptations and advances in HRD with perspectives on the dilemmas, challenges, and criticisms of HRD as seen by those outside the field of HRD. Grounded in a comprehensive review of recent literature, the authors seek to provide a balanced perspective on HRD’s strengths and weaknesses and to conceptualize a new perspective on HRD and its transformation for the future.

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