This document contains the following 26 papers presented at the first Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) Conference: "Management as a Service to Internal Customers" (Antonioni); "Developing Texas State Agency Executives for the Learning Organizations" (Bales); "How Executive Businesswomen Develop and Function in Male-Dominated Organizational Culture" (Bierema); "Union Leaders' Attitudes towards Responsibilities for Training" (Black, Robinson, Trivette); "Quality Shock: Cross-Functional Commitment at Motorola" (Browning, Weick, Powers); "The Maquiladora Industry: An Analysis on Voluntary Turnover" (Huerta); "New Employee Adaptation to the Workplace: A Learning Perspective" (Copeland, Wiswell); "An Organizational Strategy for Professional Ethics" (Dean); "Learning from Life-Experiences to Cope with Change: The Case of Top Managers in Public Service Enterprise" (Finger); "Russian Organization Development from a Russian Perspective" (Geroy, Carroll); "Organizational Factors Relating to Employee Acceptance of Peer Rating in Industrial Organizations" (Geroy, Wright); "Organizational and Occupational Cultures: A Comparative Inquiry through Organizational Stories" (Hansen, Kahnweiler); "The Development of a Cognitive Learning Style Instrument and the Investigation of Foundational Common Cognitive Constructs" (Hardy); "The Relationship between Total Quality Management and Job Satisfaction in the Maquiladora Industry" (Limon); "New Employee Development Tactics: Availability, Perceived Helplessness, and Relationship to Job Attitudes" (Holton); "Structuring On-the-Job Training: Part 1--Background and Research Design" (DeJong, Versloot); "Balancing Act; Temporary Employment in Women's Careers" (Jackle); "A Comparison of Trainer Opinions of Twenty Training Methods" (Kaupin); "Political Scripts: An Exploration into How Human Resource Developers Gain Influence" (Kirk, Shoemaker); "The Identification and Evaluation of Dimensions of Managerial Success for Different Levels of Management" (Loubser, de Jager); "The Learning Organization: An Integrative Vision for HRD" (Marsick, Watkins); "Community Change: Review and Implications of Several Change Models to Human Resource Development" (Moore); "Irrational Organizations and Implications for Systemic Culture Change Initiatives: A Case Study" (Pierson, Brooks); "Supporting Employees' Learning Transfer: The Role of the Manager and the Organization" (Preskill, Kusy); "The Theory/Practice Conflicts of Needs Assesment" (Sleezer, Bjorkquist, Leimbach); "Triangulation in Human Resource Development: A Case Study in a Public Agency" (Umble); and "Design and Development of an Assessment of Readiness for Training: The START [Strategic Assessment of Readiness for Training]." (Weinstein et al.). (KC)