Indigenous Research in HRD: Perspectives and a Call for Contributions

A New Design Framework for Innovative Qualitative Research in HRD

“…Faircloth (2017), Ghosh et al (2022), and Kwon (2021) conducted research on marginalized groups of people in HRD: an indigenous scholar, two immigrant academic mothers from India, and employees with disabilities in the workplace. Given interest in Indigenous people and communities has been minimal in HRD (Kuchinke et al, 2022), Faircloth (2017), a Native American scholar, reflected on the concept of authentic leadership using life stories and presented her dilemma as an Indigenous scholar/administrator with values of an academic institution rooted in Western structures. When doing so, she cited the need for a nuanced conception of authentic leadership that takes into account the complex identities of Indigenous people like herself.…”

Reflection on the Past Three Years (2020-2023)

“…During our term, we have accomplished the following:• We published an anniversary issue with articles celebrating 20 years of growth in HRDR (Cho et al, 2022). • We have initiated three special issues: (a) historical perspectives in HRD (Perriton, 2022), (b) qualitative research methods for theory building in HRD (Lester, 2023), and (c) people analytics (under review) to make the least published articles in HRD visible and vital for theory building in HRD.• We expanded the pool of US and non-US authors who can write editorials and guest editorials on a variety of topics including indigenous research in HRD (Buergelt et al, 2022; Kuchinke et al, 2022), well-being research in HRD (Alagaraja, 2023), and the power of ethics (Yoon et al, 2021). • We increased the number of Instructor’s Corner articles on various subjects (e.g., community-based participatory action research, the ideal review process, 10 research questions) targeting a wider audience with doctoral students and junior HRD scholars.• We increased the number of Editorial Board (EB) members to make the journal global.…”

“…• We expanded the pool of US and non-US authors who can write editorials and guest editorials on a variety of topics including indigenous research in HRD (Buergelt et al, 2022; Kuchinke et al, 2022), well-being research in HRD (Alagaraja, 2023), and the power of ethics (Yoon et al, 2021).…”

Conducting engaged human resource development scholarship with a detached mindset

“…Engaged scholarship offers principles and ways to strengthen the oftentimes‐tenuous links between theory and practice. The engaged scholarship is particularly valuable for a recent call for indigenous research in the field of human resource development (Kuchinke et al, 2022). It encourages scholars and practitioners to facilitate the convergence between research and practice (Tkachenko et al, 2017).…”