Mark Loon is Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Bath Spa University, UK. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human Resource Development: Practice, Policy and Research and an incoming Vice Chair in the British Academy of Management, co-leading the Management Knowledge and Education Committee.Jim Stewart is Professor of Human Resource Development in Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where his role is to provide mentoring support and research leadership for colleagues teaching and researching Human Resource Management. He has authored and co-edited over 20 books on HRD as well as of numerous articles in academic and professional journals.Stefanos Nachmias is Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School, UK. His research interests include an assessment of line managers’ diversity needs, gender in the workplace andemployment practices. He has co-edited several books, including Inequality and Organizational Practice, Volumes I and II, and Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace (Palgrave Macmillan).

• 1. Introduction to Volume One: Future of Human Resource Development—Disruption Through Digitalisation .- 2. The Effects of New Technologies at Work on Work Outcomes and the Implications for Human Resource Development .- 3. Digital Competence Revolution and Human ResourceDevelopment in the United Kingdom and Switzerland .- 4. Talent Disrupted: Opportunities and Threats for HumanResource Development (HRD) Strategy and Practice inthe Gig Economy Through the Critical HRD Lens .- 5.The Role of HRD in Developing Capabilities forCreativity and Innovation at Work:A Multilevel Approach .- 6. Redefining HRD Roles and Practice in the MachineLearning Revolution .- 7. E-learning: A Temporary ‘By-Product’ of Covid-19Pandemic or a Contemporary Solution to WorkplaceTraining and Learning? .- 8. Technological Innovations in Care and Implications forHuman Resource Development .- 9. Constraints Facing Creative Enterprises in GCC:Implications for HRD 10 The Future of HRD in a Post-Pandemic World:Insights from Dr Wilson Wong

Mark Loon is Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Bath Spa University, UK. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human Resource Development: Practice, Policy and Research and an incoming Vice Chair in the British Academy of Management, co-leading the Management Knowledge and Education Committee.Jim Stewart is Professor of Human Resource Development in Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where his role is to provide mentoring support and research leadership for colleagues teaching and researching Human Resource Management. He has authored and co-edited over 20 books on HRD as well as of numerous articles in academic and professional journals.Stefanos Nachmias is Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School, UK. His research interests include an assessment of line managers’ diversity needs, gender in the workplace andemployment practices. He has co-edited several books, including Inequality and Organizational Practice, Volumes I and II, and Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace (Palgrave Macmillan).

• 1. Introduction to Volume One: Future of Human Resource Development—Disruption Through Digitalisation .- 2. The Effects of New Technologies at Work on Work Outcomes and the Implications for Human Resource Development .- 3. Digital Competence Revolution and Human ResourceDevelopment in the United Kingdom and Switzerland .- 4. Talent Disrupted: Opportunities and Threats for HumanResource Development (HRD) Strategy and Practice inthe Gig Economy Through the Critical HRD Lens .- 5.The Role of HRD in Developing Capabilities forCreativity and Innovation at Work:A Multilevel Approach .- 6. Redefining HRD Roles and Practice in the MachineLearning Revolution .- 7. E-learning: A Temporary ‘By-Product’ of Covid-19Pandemic or a Contemporary Solution to WorkplaceTraining and Learning? .- 8. Technological Innovations in Care and Implications forHuman Resource Development .- 9. Constraints Facing Creative Enterprises in GCC:Implications for HRD 10 The Future of HRD in a Post-Pandemic World:Insights from Dr Wilson Wong

Mark Loon is Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Bath Spa University, UK. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human Resource Development: Practice, Policy and Research and an incoming Vice Chair in the British Academy of Management, co-leading the Management Knowledge and Education Committee.Jim Stewart is Professor of Human Resource Development in Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where his role is to provide mentoring support and research leadership for colleagues teaching and researching Human Resource Management. He has authored and co-edited over 20 books on HRD as well as of numerous articles in academic and professional journals.Stefanos Nachmias is Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School, UK. His research interests include an assessment of line managers’ diversity needs, gender in the workplace andemployment practices. He has co-edited several books, including Inequality and Organizational Practice, Volumes I and II, and Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace (Palgrave Macmillan).

• 1. Introduction to Volume One: Future of Human Resource Development—Disruption Through Digitalisation .- 2. The Effects of New Technologies at Work on Work Outcomes and the Implications for Human Resource Development .- 3. Digital Competence Revolution and Human ResourceDevelopment in the United Kingdom and Switzerland .- 4. Talent Disrupted: Opportunities and Threats for HumanResource Development (HRD) Strategy and Practice inthe Gig Economy Through the Critical HRD Lens .- 5.The Role of HRD in Developing Capabilities forCreativity and Innovation at Work:A Multilevel Approach .- 6. Redefining HRD Roles and Practice in the MachineLearning Revolution .- 7. E-learning: A Temporary ‘By-Product’ of Covid-19Pandemic or a Contemporary Solution to WorkplaceTraining and Learning? .- 8. Technological Innovations in Care and Implications forHuman Resource Development .- 9. Constraints Facing Creative Enterprises in GCC:Implications for HRD 10 The Future of HRD in a Post-Pandemic World:Insights from Dr Wilson Wong