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The Human Resource Development
Orientation Handbook and Research Guide

Classic Readings for HRD Students

R.O. Brinkerhoff and S.J. Gill. The Learning Alliance. Jossey Bass. 1994. An important step
towards repositioning HRD away from training as an activity to the support of learning for
achieving organizational outcomes.

Alan Clardy. Studying Your Workforce. Sage. 1997. Provides a comprehensive overview of how
to apply research methods in the applied study of the classic HRD issues of planning and front-end
assessment, program design, and evaluation.

T. Gilbert. Human Competence. McGraw Hill. 1978. One of the first works to develop a model of
how "worthy" performance is engineered (or inhibited) by the structure and characteristics of the
work environment.

J.W. Gilley and A. Maycunich. Strategically Integrated HRD. Addison Wesley. 1998. A very well
considered and presented approach for how to plan and carry out HRD interventions as effectively
as possible. An excellent guidebook for HRD practitioners.

Irwin Goldstein. Training In Organizations. Brooks Cole (latest edition). One of the first to survey
the research on training and learning in organizations.

J.P. Kotter. Leading Change. Harvard Business School Press. 1996. A simple yet well conceived
approach for instituting change in organizations.

G.S. Odiorne. Strategic Management of Human Resources. Jossey Bass. 1984. A compelling
model of how to classify and manage "human assets" within an organization.

J. Pfeffer. Competitive Advantage Through People. Harvard Business School Press. 1994. A
marvelous review of the importance of effective HR practices in building strong and healthy
organizations.

W.J. Rothwell and H.C. Kazanas. Mastering the Instructional Design Process. Jossey Bass. 1992.
A tour de force review and integration of the literature of instructional systems design. It is based
on Westgaard's competency study, Instructional Design Competencies: The Standards (1986),
sponsored by the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction.

L.M. Spencer, Jr. Calculating Human Resource Costs and Benefits. Wiley. 1986. Still a very
readable and useable guide for conducting various kinds of evaluations and assessments of human
resources interventions.

H.D. Stolovitch and E.J. Keeps (eds). Handbook of Human Performance Technology. Jossey Bass.
1992. A thorough compendium of articles describing practices for an extensive set of performance
interventions.

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