TY - BOOK AU - Alagaraja,Meera TI - Capacity and Capability Building for National HRD:A Multi-Level Conceptual Framework KW - Githens,Rod Patrick KW - national HRD KW - workforce development KW - foundations of HRD KW - international HRD N1 - Human resource development (HRD) scholars have grappled with the question of developing theoretical and conceptual frameworks that capture the complexities of building human capital capacity and capability at a national level. Relying on national HRD (NHRD) and international development literatures, we develop a multilevel framework for understanding capacity and capability building that is useful for assessing national development priorities for countries in general. We theorize that NHRD priorities must consider the simultaneous development of financial,industrial, and workforce considers positive as well as negative NHRD synergies that can emerge from linking financial ,industrial and workforce capacities to capability-building efforts at the national,organizational, and individual levels.In doing so, the framework contributes to NHRD -model-building approaches in extant HRD literature ER -