Handbook of Human Resource Development

Strategic HRD

Adopting a Philosophy, Strategies, Partnerships, and Transformational Roles

Jerry W. Gilley and Ann Gilley

University of Texas at Tyler

In the past, HRD professionals could purchase training programs from numerous vendors and/or develop them using instructional design techniques and strategies, schedule a training session, deliver the program, conduct simple reaction evaluation asking participants opinions of the training event, and hope somehow employee performance would improve (Gilley & Gilley, 2003). While this is a negative description of the field of HRD, examples like this still exist far too often in today's organizations. ...