Dictionary of HRD

The training, development and education of employees at all levels within organizations is now considered a vital component in maintaining a company’s competitiveness. The publication of this dictionary to human resource terms is therefore timely. Terms such as “benchmarking”, “downsizing”, “rightsizing”, “NLP training” and “the learning organization” have almost become part of everyday speech. But do we all really understand what is meant by the use of such terms?

The Dictionary of HRD was originally published in the USA in 1993 as The Trainer’s Dictionary. It has, however, been extensively reworked with a British and international readership in mind. The...