Academicians and practitioners have been debating as to whether terms such as HRD and HRM describe new concepts or are merely new terms for existing concepts (Armstrong, 2000; Legge, 2005). However, Sambrook (2001) claimed that neither the debates nor the phrases or terms are new. Hence, the notion of debating on these terms as old concepts for new terms is nothing new. Having seen the difference in the terms for HRM and HRD, it is also important to examine the history or emergence of HRM and HRD