A strong challenge to traditional Human Resource Development. Internationally renowned authors address HRD presenting multifaceted alternative perspectives to the current practice and theory of HRD.

Introduction Reviewing the Bases of HR: The Depth 1. The Complex Roots of HRD 2. Complexity, HRD and Organization Development: Towards a Viable Systems Approach to Learning, Development and Change 3. Worldviews that Enhance and Inhibit HRD's Social Responsibility 4. Strategic Quest and the Search for the Primal Mother Reflections of HR: The Width 5. Human Resource Development in the Arab Middle East: A 'Fourth Paradigm' 6. The Ethics of Human Resource Development 7. Reconciling Autonomy and Community-The Paradoxical Role of HRD 8. The Urge to Destroy is a Creative Urge Realities of HR: Applying the Theories 9. Clarifying the Complexity of Emotion in HRD: The Use of Visualisation Technology 10.Complexifying Organisation and Development 11.A New Perception for a New Millennium 12.Individual and Collective Experiential Learning in Periods of Major Change Realities of HR: Aspects of Practice 13.Leadership Principles and Reflections for Unravelling the Stranglehold of Organisational Boundaries; Challenges for Health Service 14. Propositions for Incorporating a Pedagogy of Complexity, Emotion and Power in HRD Education 15.The LIne Manager as a Facilitator of Team Learning and Change 16.A Practitioner's Reflections on HRD Research: a Case of Internalised Complexity?