Learning and Development Author:Rosemary Harrison This textbook for students taking the CIPD professional qualification has been fully revised and updated to take account of the new academic standards that will be taught from September 2002. The book firmly establishes human resource development's strategic role. It provides students with a clear framework for understanding how HRD professional... more »s can formulate and implement a learning and development strategy, identify learning needs, gain top management commitment to an organizational programme of training and development, manage and develop a training function, and design, deliver and evaluate learning events.« less