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Egan, Toby M. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2011
This article is in part inspired by an HRD director's insight that his HRD staff should view themselves as HRD Family Doctors, suggesting that a doctor-patient relationship was similar in many respects to the HRD-manager consulting relationship. Although that is possible in some organizations, the author's interviews with corporate managers and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Labor Force Development, Administration, Administrators
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Lee, Yonghak – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2009
The primary purpose of this study was to identify competencies needed by current human resource development (HRD) master's degree graduate students in Korea. The study used a quantitative method, the Delphi technique, in combination with a qualitative method consisting of a series of in-depth interviews. The Delphi technique was conducted using a…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Graduate Students, Graduates, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Jia; Roulston, Kathryn J. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Qualitative researchers in human resource development (HRD) frequently use in-depth interviews as a research method. Yet reports from qualitative studies in HRD commonly pay little or no analytical attention to the co-construction of interview data. That is, reports of qualitative research projects often treat interviews as a transparent method of…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Qualitative Research, Human Resources, Research Methodology
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Tyler, Jo A. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Human resource development (HRD) practitioners are adding storytelling to their box of tactical and strategic tools. This qualitative research study investigates how HRD practitioners in for-profit settings apply storytelling as a means of advancing organizational goals. The primary focus of practitioners is on instrumental application of stories…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Story Telling