Human resource development as a knowledge management system: the importance of bridging the scholar-practitioner gap / Claretha Hughes, Matthew W. Gosney -- HRD 'scholar-practitioner': an approach to filling theory, practice and research gap / Chandan Maheshkar -- The interplay between theory and practice in HRD: a philosophical examination / Matthew W. Gosney -- Career development models and human resource development practice / Catherine N. Kyeyune -- Strategic human resource development alignment: conceptualization from the employee's perspective / Ann Herd, Meera Alagaraja -- Theorizing the research-practice gap in the field of management: a review of key frameworks and models / Oleksandr Tkachenko, Huh-Jung Hahn, Shari Peterson -- Evidence-based organizational change and development: role of professional partnership and replication research / Robert G Hamlin -- Corporate trainers: practitioner-scholars in the workplace / Sambhavi Lakshminarayanan -- The academic workplace: HRD's potential for creating and maintaining a positive organizational culture and climate during organizational change / Julie Gedro -- Use value and HRD and HRM flexibility: implications for HRD practice / Claretha Hughes, DeVaughn Stephens.