Lynham, Cunningham / NHRD IN TRANSITIONING SOCIETIES National Human Resource Development in Transitioning Societies in the Developing World: Concept and Challenges

The problem and the solution. Synthesizing findings from five selected case studies reflective of high-transitioning coun-tries in the developing world, this article proposes a number of comparative discoveries about the necessary role and nature of national human resource development in this context. One such discovery is the influence of the political, economic, and sociocultural environments on the necessary nature and role of national human resource development in each country. A sec-ond is that context and intent shape and inform what makes for responsible human resource development. Another is that dis-coveries from this and other studies suggest emerging models and necessary attributes, components, and dimensions useful for informing an integrative and collaborative theoretical and sense-making framework for future study and practice of national human resource development. These and other discov-eries pose numerous challenges to the human resource devel-opment profession—challenges that will require fundamental reperceiving by its professionals