ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concentrates on taxonomies but thereafter concerns respectively with the development, use and planning of human resources. It also concentrates on the equally important problems of how total human resources may be moulded to increase the community's capacity to meet the alternative goals. The disciplines involved are those concerned with increasing the 'human resource'. The relevant disciplines therefore are man-power studies, education, training, selection, placement, guidance, work design and system design. Each of these separate disciplines has its own methods of analysing and behind this implicitly or explicitly there are conventions for classifying the variables, that is taxonomies. The book suggests that these separate disciplines is making a different approach to what is essentially the same problem that is the measurement of human capacities, abilities, attainment and aspirations, then they ought to be able to learn a great deal from each other.
