ABSTRACT
This book is about the nature of HRD. I disagree with the view that HRD is a subset of HRM, the poor sister of the real world of management. In this book I argue that HRD is much, much more than that. Those people involved in the initial breakdown of the field of ‘management’ into its sub sets, and those who have just followed in their footsteps without consider ing the implications of such categorisation, have not come to grips with the importance of the influence of development in forming our very existence. I posit that ‘HRD’ is shorthand for what is at the core of our being and our becoming. HRD is thus at the centre of our understanding of our lives, our relationships with others, and the emergence of our futures.
