目前这一概念的具体名称尚存争议,人力资源开发这一名词并未受到广泛认可。英國人力發展協會(英语:Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)(CIPD)在2000年指出,人力资源开发这一名词过于凸显雇主和雇员之间的支配和被支配地位,可能会引起将雇员视
Thinking Through the Energy Problem, Committee for Economic Development, 1979 Choice and Consequence, Harvard University Press, 1984 Spence, A. Michael, Signaling
Global Affairs, University of Toronto; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; and the SecDev Group, Ottawa "Internet Enemies"