Critical Human Resource Development Beyond Orthodoxy

Name: Critical Human Resource Development Beyond Orthodoxy
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ISBN: 9780273705598

ISBN-10: 0273705598

ISBN-13: 9780273705598

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jim Stewart, Clare Rigg, Kiran Trehan

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Traditionally, Human Resource Development (HRD) was focussed on enabling staff to pursue competitive advantage, but with the occurrence of high profile corporate scandals people recognising the dangers of limiting management training and development to ' technical' managerial activities have led to a surge in interest in Critical HRD. This book is a compilation and discussion of the latest thinking and research in Critical Human Resource Development from subject-leading Editors and Contributors. It examines and analyses the success of attempts to actually implement critical HRD in the workplace and is suitable for Postgraduate students at diploma, masters and doctorate level on both…

Book details

List price: $81.80
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



About the contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction. A critical take on a critical turn in HRD




A Critical Turn in Human Resource Development


Introduction to Part One



Exploring the notion of 'time' and 'critical' HRD




The fallacy of ethics and HRD: how ethics limits the creation of a 'deep' profession




The ethics of HRD



Activities for Part One



In the Workplace


Introduction to Part Two



Feminism, gender and HRD




The mutation of HRD and strategic change: a critical perspective




Shifting boundaries in work and learning: HRD and the case of corporate education



Activities for Part Two



Constraints in the Classroom


Introduction to Part Three



Putting the 'C' in HRD




How can I teach critical management in this place? A critical pedagogy for HRD: possibilities, contradictions and compromises




Chuck out the chintz? 'Stripped floor' writing and the catalogue of convention: alternative perspectives on management inquiry



Activities for Part Three



Critique of Critical Orthodoxies


Introduction to Part Four



Acknowledging conflict in 'communities of practice': a figurational perspective on learning and innovating in the workplace




The learning turn in education and training: liberatory paradigm or oppressive ideology?




Going beyond a critical turn: hypocrisies and contradictions



Activities for Part Four


References and further reading


Index