ABSTRACT
Since systems theory provides a common conception of organizations or any system, it can serve as a conceptual framework or organizer through which the field of HRD can ensure a holistic understanding of its work. Systems are viewed as unitary wholes composed of parts or sub systems; the system serves to integrate the parts into a functioning unit (Boulding 1956). Although systems vary in different ways – in size and complexity, for example – they have a number of common characteristics by virtue of being systems, and those properties can be applied to systems as any level.
