This document contains four papers from a symposium on the changing workplace and its relationship to human resource development (HRD). In "Globalization, Immigration and Quality of Life Dynamics for Reverse Brain Drains" (Ben-Chieh Liu, Maw Lin Lee, Hau-Lien), the factors responsible for the brain drain from Taiwan to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s and the reverse brain drain after the 1980s are analyzed. "Employee Commitment in Changing Organizations: An Exploration" (Wim J. Nihof, Margariet J. de Jong, Gijs Beukhof) reports on a survey of human resource managers in the Netherlands in which employee commitment was shown to be strongly connected with collegiality and style of management. "A Study of Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity, and Job Satisfaction in the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service and Implications for Training" (Billie J. Chambers, A.B. Moore, Douglas Bachtel) discusses a study of Georgia county extension agents in which role conflict and role ambiguity were determined to be a significant predictor variable of job satisfaction. "Professional Learning on the Job of Dutch Secondary Teachers: Exploring Opportunities for Informal Learning" (Kitty H.E. Kwakman) reports on a study of the effect of individual and job variables on participation in informal learning. (MN)