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Do Practitioners Use HRD Research (and Why or Why Not)?

Posted by: Jeffrey in Learning & Teaching

I just finished presenting my research paper at AHRD 2007. My paper is entitled Do Practitioners Use HRD Research (and Why or Why Not)?, and it met with some really interesting questions that further informed the work my research partner, Sophia Stone, and I did. I will play with these further questions in my mind, and post more about them later.

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3 comments so far

Robin

I do. What is interesting is that I was speaking with a CEO of a Canadian Instructional Design consulting firm the other day and he said “sometimes when they see that you have a strong research and a corporate background, they only see the research side and your work will be well studied but take time and in the corporate world you don’t always have this luxury” to which I’ve responded, this is why I have multiple versions of my bio depending on who I speak with. It would be great to have more corporations embrace researched based practice but then again that’s why we write articles and speak at conferences about it, I guess.

March 2nd, 2007 at 6:52 pm

Isabel Rimanoczy

It was refreshing to attend this session, maybe because it explored a question that i have had on my mind for some time. Isn’t it interesting how asymetrical the relationship is between HRD scholars and practitioners!? and how little attention has been given to this. I think Jeffrey and Sophia are opening a valuable path. Like a company finally asking: Client? What do you mean?

March 3rd, 2007 at 8:09 am

John Bing