The limitations of this study include that 30 organizations are a minimal requirement to conduct multilevel research. Using more organizations would more likely allow for generalization. In addition, the average amount of employees who returned their questionnaire per organization was seven. Unfortunately seven employees are not a representative sample when around 70.000 employees are working in the organization. Further, whether participants came from Germany or the Netherlands had an influence on the degree of the correlation between intended and perceived HRD, which makes it evident that these cultural factors might have influenced the results.