Effective organizations have employees who are committed and make contributions to organizational success. Hale (1991) pointed out that human resource development (HRD) professionals must support organizational learning in order to establish performance expectations, address higher-level problem-solving skills, and account for societal outcomes. Thus, HRD professionals are primarily responsible for creating HRD strategies within a learning culture that fosters continuous employee learning.This indicates that HRD professionals need to adopt a new approach to maximizing organizational effectiveness,one that addresses the real problems of an organization and enables it to achieve learning results (Rothwell, 1996).So what does this new approach look like to enable organizations to achieve learning results and adopt the new approach? By organizing, integrating, and evaluating previously published material identified in a comprehensive literature review, this research identified the relationship between strategic HRD (SHRD) practices and organizational
learning. We argue, first, that SHRD has a responsibility to provide strategies, training, and development
opportunities to help organizations and their employees to achieve their business goals. Then, we argue that the
characteristics of SHRD are important in providing organizational learning. We also believe that SHRD practices
have the same responsibilities to influence organizational learning as to provide organizations with the key
capabilities to enhance their organizational outcomes related to SHRD practices.