ABSTRACT
The landscape of human development that can provide a grounding for the work of human resource administration has been admirably mapped by the psychologist Erik Erikson. Humans experience challenges or crises which must be met in order to grow into more mature human beings, challenges which are met in various degrees of success over the course of a specific range of years in a person's development. Charles Taylor maintains that the construction and enactment of personal authenticity is the most fundamental and profound ethical responsibility all human beings face. Undoubtedly Erikson's map of healthy human growth over the span of a human life will continue to be refined, corrected, expanded by other scholars of human psychology and anthropology. Women's studies have already amplified the understanding of women's distinctive life experiences, and scholarship in race and ethnic studies are similarly providing insights into the diverse patterns of human development contextualized by race and ethnic circumstances.
