Performance and Learning, But Where’s the Social Justice? Ideology and Human Resource Development—Critical Analysis, Synthesis, and Future Research

This paper critiques the debate about the purpose of HRD. Furthermore, it presents an integrative literature review that provides a meta-theory, hitherto missing, to explain the reasons for which there are endless disputes in the literature about the purpose of HRD. The synthesis explains that ideology provides the guiding meta-theoretical framework from which contending literatures can be classified into a taxonomy that includes the conservative, libertarian, and critical HRD schools of thought