Advances in Developing Human Resources is a quarterly journal that explores and examines a wide range of topics relevant to developing human potential and ultimately an organization’s overall performance. The journal is grounded in sound research and theory and is edited by a leading scholar in the field. The content is applicable to higher education, profit-sector, non-profit sector, public sector, and a variety of other workplace settings. The journal is readable and relevant to scholars, practitioners, scholar/practitioners, educators, and researchers.

Submissions that offer new conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical insights or build on existing bodies of human resource development research are encouraged. A presenting problem situates a submitted manuscript within a relevant human resource development (HRD) domain/paradigm (e.g. learning, performance, training and development, career development, organization development, critical HRD, strategic HRD, leader/leadership development, higher education, global/cross cultural HRD). Given the interdisciplinary nature of HRD, solutions should be applicable to a wide range of organizational or social contexts with an emphasis on ways that practitioners can apply findings or new knowledge that improves social conditions or the world of work.

The Advances in Developing Human Resources Editorial Board supports Sage’s Action on Diversity presented in June 2021. Through our publications, we are committed to advancing the field of human resource development with scholarship that: reflects the perspectives of a diverse workforce; welcomes and amplifies the voices of the under-represented and exposes unjust practices and systems that are detrimental to building strong human relations and achieving solidarity in our community.