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Volume 24, Issue 8-9
1 December 2003
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Research Article| December 01 2003

Continuing professional development and workplace learning 5: human resource development – a strategic imperative

Ian Smith
Ian Smith is a Member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section Standing Committee and Senior Librarian (Personnel), La Trobe University Library, Victoria, Australia. E‐mail: i.smith@latrobe.edu.au
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7921
Print ISSN: 0143-5124
© MCB UP Limited
2003
Library Management (2003) 24 (8-9): 443–445.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120310501130

Discusses the importance of a strategic approach to human resource development (HRD) in an environment of rapid change. HRD is defined and the characteristics of strategic HRD are identified. Puts the view that HRD is a strategic imperative – nationally, organisationally and individually. Outlines themes that are to be developed in a series of brief articles in coming issues of Library Management.

Keywords: Management strategy, Human resource development, Continuing professional development
© MCB UP Limited
2003
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