Extending Human Resource Development Theory to the Judiciary Field; Theoretical Framework

Human resource development theory represents organizational human development in the general mean; this theory, with an interdisciplinary approach, includes various organizational contexts. The theoretical literature indicates the gradual expansion of the theory into the organizational contexts of private business, governmental and non-profit. This article examines the development of theory into a judicial context. The purpose of this article is to achieve a theoretical framework for human resource development in the field of justice. The study method is a review of the research literature, interviews with 9 academic and judicial experts and thematic analysis of data. The results of the analysis indicate that the legal solution patterns represent the theme of the judicial profession; and includes four models of adaptive, contextual, institutional, and critical. The models of legal solution are divided into two continuum: the importance of the judicial issue (normal to important) and the continuum of the goal of resolving the judicial issue (returning to the current legal order to create a new legal order); Therefore, they are classified into four adaptive, contextual, institutional and critical categories. This classification is a guide to the theoretical framework of judicial human resource development. The theoretical framework includes stabilization judicial human, evolutionary judicial human, institutionalist judicial human, and change-oriented judicial human.