This study examines the effects of ethics training on the attitudes, knowledge-based scores, and analysis of ethical dilemmas among office professionals. A treatment- and control-group design was used with variables of interest measured before, immediately after, and ninety days following completion of a six-hour ethics training workshop. A…

Steps for conducting field research include generating the idea, finding sites, selling the idea, identifying longitudinal concerns, meeting human subject guidelines, motivating participants, obtaining good data, exerting control, creating ownership, handling conflict, and presenting results. (SK)

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…

Review of human resource development in Britain since World War II finds that cohesion of view and approach among varied stakeholders has occurred during three periods: postwar structuralism, free-market entrepreneurialism, and new Labour resocialization. At other periods, stakeholders sought different objectives and had different visions for the…

Using a contingency framework, three stages in the evolution of human resource development (HRD) in the National Health Service were identified: tell (training enacted within the classical management paradigm); sell (a competence approach to development for all employees); and gel (strategic HRD linked to corporate goals and future needs).…

Successful business training by foreigners in Russia must consider the contemporary climate for training and human resource management; characteristics of the Russian audience; and cultural issues in the use of simulation, hard versus soft content, and working with a translator. (SK)

Appropriate links between company staffing and training practices and business strategy lead to better performance. Those with a prospector strategy should use different practices than those with a defender strategy in four areas: source of skills, functional emphasis on skills, emphasis on breadth of skills, and emphasis on quality. (SK)

Analyzes concepts of education and training within the context of liberal adult education, finding significant differences. Compares the performance and learning models in human resource development, concluding that learning is conceptually richer and more comprehensive. (SK)

A research review identified findings about the financial analysis method, forecasting of the financial benefits of human resource development (HRD), and recent financial analysis research: (1) HRD embedded in a performance improvement framework yielded high return on investment; and (2) HRD interventions focused on performance variables forecast…

Outsourcing in the training and development industry has been steadily increasing and shows no indication of slowing (Surgue & Kim, 2004). Gainey and Klaas's study shines light on the role of interfirm trust in effective outsourcing relationships. This reaction addresses a methodological question of the effect of the rating target on the results,…

Human resource development professionals have two challenges in total quality management (TQM): showing management what customer focus and leadership mean and declining responsibilities that are not theirs. TQM's systems view of training involves value-adding processes that take place before, during, and after the learning transaction. (SK)

A field experiment of ninety-six employees tested a model of the relationships among dispositional learning orientation, self-efficacy, goal orientation context, and declarative knowledge. Specifically, the model predicted positive influences of task-specific self-efficacy (pre- and mid-training) and declarative knowledge in the relationship…