Human resource development value orientations: a construct validation study

Abstract

This study sought to identify measures of individual value orientations related to how HRD professionals believe the ideal HRD process should be viewed. The goal of the research was to refine a set of HRD value orientation measures generated from earlier research and to discover the extent to which items used in those measures formed coherent and independent subsets. Construct validation efforts using exploratory factor analysis showed an exceptionally clean and interpretable latent structure consisting of six variables. These results were highly consistent with the hypothesized conceptual framework. Implications for HRD and directions for future research are presented.