Human Resource Development Review: Research and Implications

Designed to inform, stimulate and influence research and practice in human resource development (HRD), this book reviews exemplary studies in the field and discusses their practical implications.

Topics discussed include: the importance of variety in behavioural models to improve training; methods for enhancing human performance; integrative and accelerated learning; the advantages of structured versus unstructured on-the-job training; team performance; why some teams learn and others do not; interventions that improve team processes and performance; the role of managers in organizational learning; how research on organizational learning might affect the role of HRD; and more.

Designed to inform, stimulate and influence research and practice in human resource development (HRD), this book reviews exemplary studies in the field and discusses their practical implications.

Topics discussed include: the importance of variety in behavioural models to improve training; methods for enhancing human performance; integrative and accelerated learning; the advantages of structured versus unstructured on-the-job training; team performance; why some teams learn and others do not; interventions that improve team processes and performance; the role of managers in organizational learning; how research on organizational learning might affect the role of HRD; and more.

Darlene Russ-Eft, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the new School of Education at Oregon State University.  She is also a principal in zmresearch, an evaluation and research group focused on human resource development in organizations, and has served as a faculty member of the Evaluator's Institute.  She is the former Director of Research at AchieveGlobal, Inc. (one of the largest training and consulting firms) and the former Director of Research Services at Zenger-Miller (a training firm focused on leadership).  She coauthored Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning Performance, and Change (Russ-Eft & Preskill, 2001) and Everyone a Leader: A Grassroots Model for the New Workplace (Bergmann, Hurson, & Russ-Eft, 1999).  She has also coedited What Works: Assessment, Development, and Measurement (Bassi & Russ-Eft, 1999), What Works: Training and Development (Bassi & Russ-Eft, 1999), and the Human Resource Development Review (Russ-Eft, Preskill, & Sleezer, 1997).  She has served as the chair of the Research Committee of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and as a member of  the board of the American Evaluation Association. Dr. Russ-Eft is the current Editor of Human Resource Development Quarterly, a refereed journal of the Academy of Human Resource Development and ASTD.  She received the 1996 Times Mirror Editor of the Year Award and the Year 2000 AHRD Outstanding Scholar Award.  For over 20 years, she has consulted in the areas of program evaluation, research design, and training and development, and has conducted evaluations in corporate,government, health care, nonprofit, educational, and community-based organizations.  She has written numerous articles and book chapters on evaluation and training and development.