Furthermore, some HRD scholars hastily concluded that the “United States is
behind most of the rest of the world in acknowledging the value of NHRD. As a result,
the USA does not have a clear vision of its national human resource development, and
multiple agencies (perhaps as many as 125) overlap in offering uncoordinated aspects
of NHRD (Cho and McLean, 2004; p. 391).” Such conclusion was not based on our
current knowledge on the USA’s workforce development history and reality. It also
contradicts to the human capital theory.