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The purpose of this study was to review diversity climate and inclusive climate scales and identify their features. By using three key concepts present in the diversity and inclusion climate literature (fairness, uniqueness, and belongingness), 13 measures were analyzed and summarized according to individual, group, leadership, and organizational levels. Both inclusive and diversity climate measures are based on the assumption that individual differences should be perceived, accepted, and valued in organizations. Inclusive climate measures specifically emphasize how much individuals feel a sense of belongingness to their groups or organizations while still feeling free to maintain and express their differences and uniqueness. Measures for diversity climate focus on the ways in which organizations can support diverse employees and how organizations can provide fair and equal opportunities to employees regardless of their differences. Discussion and implications are presented.

The chaotic initial stages of the Covid-19 pandemic severely challenged organizations. Economies shut down and millions of people were confined to their homes. Human resource practitioners turned to organizational coaching, a trusted human resource development intervention for help, however, to remain relevant during the crisis coaches had to adapt their praxis. The working alliance describes the mutual bond, goal, and task alignment between coach and client and is an indication of coaching efficacy. This study investigates to what extent organizational coaches' praxis adaptation at the start of the pandemic maintained a working alliance that still served the human resource development (HRD) paradigms of learning, performance, and meaningful work. Interviews with 26 organizational coaches from USA, UK, Australia, and South Africa recorded during the first general lockdown (April 2020) were inductively analyzed using thematic analysis and deductively interpreted through the working alliance theory and desired HRD outcome paradigms. Findings reveal seven organizational coaching praxis adaptations judged to support all three working alliance components, with “task” and “goal” more prominent than “bond,” suggesting a pragmatist preference reminiscent of crisis management. Praxis adaptation also seems to promote all three HRD paradigms of learning, performance, and meaningful work on individual and/or organizational levels. This study strengthens the already well-established link between HRD and coaching by positing that coaching is a dynamic, pragmatic, self-adaptive intervention that supports HRD during a crisis. Understanding coaches' praxis adaptation during the volatile initial stages of a crisis is important for HRD theory and practice given HRDs increasing reliance on coaching.

This paper provides insights into the opportunities and risks that the technological transformation of Human Resource Development (HRD) presents in the context of early career talent in the accounting, banking, and finance sector. Three research questions are explored. (1) What opportunities exist for organizations investing in technology as a talent management strategy for recruiting early career talent? (2) What are the risks or threats to organizations from investing in technology as a strategy for recruiting early career talent? (3) What role do meso-level actors play in recruiting early career talent? More specifically, to what extent do the views of graduate recruiters and career advisors as agents of organizations and higher education institutions align or diverge? Thirty-six semi-structured interviews were conducted with graduate recruiters and career advisors. Thematic analysis was subsequently applied, identifying three themes (i) employer branding, (ii) virtual recruitment, and (iii) diversity and social inclusion agendas, each presented opportunities and risks. The theoretical contribution comes from advancing career ecosystems and the new psychological contract as a theoretical framework by focusing on technological transformation and capturing the dyadic relationship between the meso-level actors. Our paper integrates three topic clusters of HRD interventions and outcomes, national HRD, and career development, while manifesting the role and importance of under-represented career actors. Practical implications aim to help shape talent management strategies for recruiting early career talent. Capturing the views of career advisors in this study can help organizations identify blind spots and inform policy.

Scholars have become increasingly interested in employees' well-being. Despite studies on the relationships among well-being constructs, research gaps still exist from the longitudinal and within-person perspectives. Based on top-down and bottom-up theories of subjective well-being and spillover theories, this study examines the longitudinal relationships of work satisfaction, nonwork satisfaction, and subjective well-being. A random intercept cross-lagged panel model was used with the data of four yearly waves collected from 8624 full-time employees. The autoregressive and cross-lagged coefficients were not stable but rather change across time. There were strong between-person correlations between work satisfaction, nonwork satisfaction, and subjective well-being. At the within-person level, the paths from subjective well-being to work satisfaction were not significant while the paths from subjective well-being to nonwork satisfaction were significant over the years. The cross-lagged effects from work satisfaction and nonwork satisfaction to subjective well-being were not significant across the years. However, the cross-lagged relationships between work satisfaction and nonwork satisfaction were significant. Theoretical implications, practical implications, and suggestions for future research were discussed.

In O'Brien, Galavan, & O'Shea 2022, the author affiliation of Eoin Galavan and Deirdre O'Shea were interchanged in the original published article. The correct affiliation is presented below.

Eoin Galavan, North Dublin Suicide Assessment and Treatment Service, Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland.

Deirdre O'Shea, Department of Work and Employment Studies, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

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Human resource development (HRD) has traditionally been seen as the main driver behind people-centered developmental activities such as learning and development, organization development, and career development. However, the role of HRD professionals as the main stakeholder has been questioned as more and more people-centered development activities have been integrated into a broad range of leadership and supervisory roles within the organization. The question arises: How do HRD professionals and business managers interact in organizing HRD activities? Building on structure and actor theories as a theoretical foundation, the study combines deductive and inductive data analysis of semi-structured interviews to review the roles of HRD professionals and business managers involved in organizing HRD activities in six different organizations in the USA. Our findings show that while training does not appear in any of the HR-related job titles, the term “training” is more common in business managers' titles describing their link to HRD activities. When organizing those activities, HRD professionals and business managers engage extensively in emergent partnering structures. While some HRD professionals are the main actors in some learning networks, business managers drive HRD activities in others. We discuss the commingling of actors and its impact on the learning network. The paper closes with a discussion of research limitations, future research, and implications for HRD practice.