and so on. Academics are faced with making decisions about affiliating primarily with AHRD or UFHRD, or with AOM (Academy of Management), SIOP (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology), or even AERA (American Educational Research Association). And these are only those that are primarily U.S.A. based. Adding a broader organizational perspective would add dozens and dozens of other appropriate professional organizations. The boundary problem is clearly not limited to HRD but is faced by many professional disciplines. None of these organizations, to the knowledge of the authors, has undertaken to provide a definition of HRD.