... re-use rights only Professional development Budgeting Strategic planning Human resource development Learning organizations Chief learning officers The concept of the CLO has its origins in the early 1990s in the work of Verna Willis, an American systems theory scholar whose background...

...Vesna Župan Purpose This article aims to overcome the attitude that information is most important for social development. It also aims to stress the ways of human resources development in the academic librarianship of Serbia. Design/methodology/approach An empirical method is implemented...

... Human resource development Graduates The focus of LIS education is to develop competent and skilled human resources to meet the changing needs of digital environment. Many evolutionary changes have taken place in the information market place from Dewey school of Library Economy to twenty‐first...

.... Originality/value The discussion in the paper provides some insights into the planning and development of emerging technological university libraries in Africa and other developing regions. Academic libraries Africa Higher education Human resource development Universities of science...

... underperformance sends the message to others that performance management is a serious business and that underperformance will be called to account. Human resource development (HRD) is concerned with developing the work‐related capacity of people – as individuals, in teams, and at whole‐of‐organisation...

...Mei Wa Esther Woo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the value of Human Resource Development (HRD) in the recruitment of academic librarians. Design/methodology/approach A literature review was conducted to analyze the demand and supply of academic librarians since the year 2000...

...Ian Smith Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential for the application of benchmarking to human resource development (HRD) practice in the LIS sector. Design/methodology/approach This paper outlines the principles of benchmarking, examines dimensions which may be useful...

... resource strategy. Human resource strategies Human resource management Human resource development Performance appraisal Public libraries Botswana Increasingly, the issue of strategic human resource management is gaining popularity. Whether service oriented or production oriented...

...Ian W. Smith Considers human resource development policy: public/national and organisational, and the implications and opportunities of such policy for individuals. expression of the strategic focus of HRD activity; recognition of the benefit of HRD to the organisation; alignment of HRD...

...Ian W. Smith Outlines several frameworks for the evaluation of human resource development programs: the return on investment model, the cost/benefit ratio approach, and bottom‐line evaluation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Human resource development Job evaluation Return...

...Ian Smith Examines the costs and benefits of human resources development (HRD) and arguments for measuring the return on investment in HRD. Outlines a framework for evaluation of HRD effectiveness. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Human resource development Cost benefit analysis...

...Ian Smith Discusses the “people” aspect of organisational change and the ways in which human resource development (HRD) can act as an effective organisational change tool. Outlines a six‐step best‐practice model for the application of HRD in achieving organisational change. © Emerald Group...

...Ian W. Smith Outlines several models of organisational learning and emphasises the importance of the development of a culture of organisational learning in achieving effective human resource development outcomes. References Argyris , C. and Schon , D. (1978), Organisational...

...   Atkinson . Developing Teams through Project‐based Learning . Aldershot : Gower   2001 . 168 pp. , ISBN: 0‐566083671   £41 © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Training Teams Human resource development The author makes clear in the preface that the focus of this book is not about...

...Ian Smith 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...

... assumed the chairmanship of the SADC Regional Training Council (RTC) which now controls the affairs of the Human Resources Development Sector. One of the projects of this sector has been to create a Regional Human Resource Information System(RHRIS). This project has provided guiding principles to those...