The purpose of this study is to question the traditional wisdom of HRD,
which has been driven by efficiency-based and economic values-oriented, and
propose an alternative paradigm of HRD, which is intended for capturing HRD
reality as a wholistic web based on human emotion and creative imagination,
while reinterpreting human resources development to happiness revitalization
development and human relationship development. The focus of existing HRD
theories and practical efforts have been under with individual paradigm rather
than relational paradigm. In order to understand the main attributes of relational
HRD paradigm, the fourth generation HRD is explored, which is totally different
form the first to the third generation HRD paradigm accompanied by emergence
of the agricultural, industrial, and information society. The fourth generation
HRD is a kind of 「post-HRD」 based upon the relational philosophical
assumption. Here, the「post-HRD」is considered as beyond the traditional
wisdom of HRD as well as following the previous HRD. In other words, the
「post-HRD」has dual side of face, which is an alternative approach and a
practical effort for the nature of current HRD and beyond the limitations of and
problems with the traditional HRD. Exploration to differentiation of individual
HRD paradigm from wholistic HRD paradigm ,based on the relational HRD of the「post-HRD」,is made to discuss the relational malfunction and deficiency of
HRD practices, which have been imported from the Western and applied to the
Korean corporate education. Representative examples such ad reductionistic
CBC(Competency-Based Curriculum), knowledge management from the lens of
individualistic view of knowledge as object, e-Learning from the perspectives of
object-based content development and learning management system,
decontextualized efforts for leadership development are explored to explain that
the existing HRD practices are made by the relational philosophical assumption.
An alternative way of understanding HRD history, micro-cultural understanding
HRD history such as thick description, different text reading, fractal scrutiny to
HRD historial text is employed to explore the historical development process of
HRD. Finally, the future directions for the relational HRD are discussed and the
relational HRD research agenda like anthropological HRD field research,
micro-cultural HRD history, ecological relationship of HRD, idiosyncratic HRD
research, which is appropriate for Korean corporate settings, is provided for the
future development of HRD.