"The book will provide both thought-provoking questions and stimulating answers to the key factors in HR development today". ("IT Training"). "Human Resource Development" is the ideal handbook for all professional trainers and provides core information needed by all professional students of this subject. This new second edition has been fully updated and revised, with the inclusion of three new chapters making this the most topical book in this field: Design, Development and Application of E-learning; Knowledge Management & Transfer; and, Human & Intellectual Capital. Clearly structured with detailed sections covering each aspect of the training cycle, the book also includes sections on: The Role of Learning Training and Development in Organisations; Learning and Competitive Strategy; The Identification of Learning, Training and Development Needs; The Planning and Designing of Learning, Training and Development; Delivering Learning, Training and Development; Assessment and Evaluation of Learning, Training and development; and, Managing the Human Resource Development Function. Co-ordinated and edited by Dr John P. Wilson, individual contributors include Professor Geoff Chivers, Professor of Continuing Education, Sheffield University, Joan Keogh OBE and Colin Beard both senior lecturers, Sheffield Hallam University, Alan Cattall, University of Bradford plus many more leading academics in the field of Human Resource Development.