Questions and Answers of Foundations Of Human Resource Development

If knowledge and expertise are now considered a competitive advantage for many organizations, how would knowledge management fit into these paradigms?
What is your “best-case” scenario for HRD in the twenty-first century?(Write a 250- to 300-word essay.)
What is the role of HRD in a virtual organization? (Write 100 to 125 words.)
Articulate your personal view of technology. (Write seventy-five to one hundred words.)
What specific activities would help you to be more informed of globalization?List five specific activities and describe their benefits.
Articulate your personal view of the global economy. (Write seventy-five to one hundred words.)
How can the field overcome what seems to be a persistent fear of accountability?
Which metrics listed in this chapter could be used to build an effective balanced scorecard for HRD accountability?
Are metrics a viable approach to HRD accountability?
Why do you think there is such resistance to evaluating results of HRD interventions?
If the Kirkpatrick model of evaluation is so flawed, why does it continue to have such a strong following in HRD?
Describe a major strategy for advancing the human resource development profession.
Illustrate strategic from nonstrategic organization development practices.
Illustrate strategic from nonstrategic personnel training and development practices.
What are the three strategic roles of HRD? Describe each and give an example of each.
Select the strategic thinking school you believe to be the best for HRD and explain why.
How is strategic planning different from planning?
How do career development and OD connect?
When does work process- versus group-focused OD make sense?
What are two to four major implications of having an OD effort in a single site location versus ten sites across the nation?
Identify an organization with which you are familiar and briefly describe it. Speculate as to how that organization’s mission would impact the OD practices.
What are three principles of good OD practice?
What is the responsible connection between change and performance?
Can all theories of change be captured in one type or a combination of types within Van de Ven and Poole’s typology?
What similarities and differences do you see among the organization, work process, group, and individual change theories?
How can HRD become more of a change leader in organizations, rather than a change facilitator?
Do you agree or disagree that change is an organizing construct for HRD? Explain your answer.
How does OD help with the organizational challenges of managing the system and changing the system?
What is the purpose of each of the five phases of the general OD process and the relationship between the phases?
What is the role of the OD consultant in the OD process?
What are the unique aspects of the OD component of HRD?
How would you define OD and describe its relationship to HRD?
What does T&D need to do in order to be instrumental in organizationwide expertise issues?
How does thinking about T&D at the work process level impact on the work of T&D professionals?
When does team or group learning make sense and not make sense?
What are two to four major implications of having one person needing training in an area versus two hundred people needing the same training?
Briefly describe an organization with which you are familiar. Speculate as to how that organization’s mission would impact on the T&D practices.
What issues arise from focusing on expertise as an outcome of T&D?
How would HRD/T&D differ if it committed to competence versus expertise?
How would HRD/T&D differ if it committed to knowledge versus expertise?
What is the difference among knowledge, competence, and expertise?
Cite a personal experience that illustrates the concept of expertise.
What exactly is expertise?
How does T&D help with organizational challenges of managing the system and changing the system?
What is the purpose of each of the five phases of T&D and the relationship between the phases?
What are the unique aspects of the training and development component of HRD?
What is the role of informal and incidental learning in T&D?
How would you define T&D and describe its relationship to HRD?
What is the future of performance-oriented HRD?
How can HRD lead change in each of the performance variables?
Performance models are often seen as useful to management, but not a tool to benefit employees.What is your position on this?
Do performance models enhance or diminish the value of learning in organizations?
What are the implications of multilevel, multiattribute performance models for HRD practice?
Which performance model do you think best represents performance constructs of concern to HRD? Explain why.
Do you believe that organizations can learn? Or, are organizations merely the sum of individual learning?
How can the andragogy in practice model be applied to enhance the application of adult learning in HRD?
Think about all the models or methods of learning that you know are advocated in HRD.Where do they fit into the metatheories of learning?
If learning is a defining construct for the HRD discipline, how can learning be made more powerful in organizations?
How would an employee, an employee’s manager, and a corporate CEO view this issue?
How can HRD operate from a learning paradigm and play a core strategic role in organizations?
How can HRD operate from a performance paradigm and ensure that human development is honored and supported?
Do you see the learning and performance paradigms as competing paradigms or as mutually reinforcing?
Which paradigm do you feel most comfortable with and would you adopt as your own personal belief system?
What do you think the main contribution of system theory is to HRD?Why?
What do you think the primary contribution of economic theory is to HRD? Why?
What do you think the main contribution of psychological theory is to HRD? Why?
From the section on “The Discipline of Human Resource Development,”what do you see as the connection between the definition of HRD and the model of HRD?
What is the argument for multiple theories supporting the discipline of HRD?
Explain how models and theories differ. Also, discuss whether it is possible to have one without the other.
Which of the five philosophical metaphors for HRD theory makes the most sense to a high-tech business organization? Explain why.
Which of the five philosophical metaphors for HRD theory makes the most sense to you? Explain why?
Of the HRD theory references cited, which one interests you the most?Why?
What is theory? Give a definition and an explanation.
Why would someone argue that good theory is practical?
Identify two recurring themes in the history of HRD. Name them and describe them.
What unique role does the Academy of Human Resource Development play in the HRD profession, and what are some of its accomplishments?
Why is the World War II Training within Industry project seen as so important to HRD?
Identify three HRD related historical times or events of interest to you, and explain why they are of interest and what else you would like to know.
Identify at least three discrete times in history, report on how human beings are viewed during that time, and note the HRD implications.
Why are integrity and ethics important to HRD?
Explain how your own general worldview(s) fits with the HRD in the context of the organization and environment worldview.
What, if any, is the logical connection between the figures presented in this chapter?
Identify and explain something about systems thinking in the chapter that is new to you.
What is the relationship among the improvement, problem orientation, and systems thinking within the HRD profession?
Based on the ideas presented in this chapter, what is it about HRD that interests you the most?
Of the three HRD core beliefs presented in this chapter, which one is closest to your beliefs? Why?
What would you consider to be part of HRD and not part of HRD?Why?
Identify a definition of HRD presented in this chapter that makes the least sense to you and explain why.
Identify a definition of HRD presented in this chapter that makes the most sense to you and explain why.
What is your “best-case”scenario for HRD in the next twenty years?(Write a 200- to 250-word essay.)
Given shifting values, how might a HRD workgroup prepare itself to deal with these challenges? (Write 100 to 125 words.)
What is the role of HRD in a virtual organization?(Write 100 to 125 words.)
Articulate your personal view of technology. (Write 75 to 100 words.)
What specific activities would help you to be more informed of globalization?List five specific activities and describe their benefits.
Articulate your personal view of the global economy (write 75 to 100 words).
What disruptive innovation has brought you the most joy or fun?Identify and explain.
What disruptive innovation has most dramatically altered your life?Identify and explain.
How do global issues (e.g., pandemic, climate change) affect international HRD work?
What are some common coordination and communication issues and challenges IHRD practitioners face between headquarters and international subsidiaries?
How can HRD practitioners help ensure the success of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international joint ventures, and alliances?

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