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The seminal foundation of the discipline of HRD: People, learning, and organizations
Author(s) -
Chalofsky Neal
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.1212
Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , discipline , human resources , sociology , engineering ethics , set (abstract data type) , curriculum , resource (disambiguation) , field (mathematics) , management , pedagogy , psychology , political science , engineering , social science , computer science , law , computer network , mathematics , pure mathematics , economics , programming language
Human resource development (HRD) has long been considered a field with an interdisciplinary foundation. Unfortunately there has never been a consensus on the composition of the seminal disciplinary base of HRD. A description of the concept of an applied discipline is presented, and HRD, as represented by its academic association, the Academy of Human Resource Development, is compared to a set of criteria of a discipline that is set forth in the scholarly literature. A seminal foundation for a curriculum of the HRD discipline is presented around the framework of people, learning, and organizations.