This document contains three papers from a symposium on approaches to research in human resource development (HRD). "HRD, Feminism, and Adult Education: A Foundation for Collaborative Approaches to Research and Practice" (Yvonne M. Johnson) identifies common interests among HRD professionals, feminists, and practitioners in the field of adult education (AE) and calls upon researchers to embrace the diversity of all three perspectives. "Research Paradigms in Human Resource Development: Competing Modes of Inquiry" (Sujin Kim) analyzes positivism, interpretivism, and critical science from the following standpoints of their relative strengths and weaknesses as research paradigms in the HRD field and discusses the issue of what responsibilities researchers should assume to better serve the HRD community's needs. "Mixed Methods Use in HRD and AE" (Tonette S. Rocco, Linda Bliss, Sue Gallagher, Aixa Perex-Prado) analyzes the literature on HRD and AE to determine how mixed methods combining qualitative and quantitative approaches at different phases in the research process are approached in each field. The paper documents that most researchers who use mixed methods confine their discussions of research design and data interpretation to descriptions of technical-level decisions about methods and ignore the broader philosophical and political-level discussions that ultimately shape research agendas. All three papers include substantial bibliographies. (MN)