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Critical Human Resource Development Jim Stewart

Critical Human Resource Development By Jim Stewart

Critical Human Resource Development by Jim Stewart


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Summary

Focuses on organisational goals and those of other stakeholders and society at large. This book provides an insight into the potential benefits and pitfalls, expectations and concerns of advancing a critical view of HRD in practice. It is intended for lecturers, students and practitioners who are aching for a critical analysis.

Critical Human Resource Development Summary

Critical Human Resource Development: Beyond Orthodoxy by Jim Stewart

An examination of the latest thinking and research in Critical Human Resource Development from subject-leading Editors and Contributors, informing and supporting discussion and debate on the nature and practice of HRD.

About Jim Stewart

This collection from 15 contributors has been edited by Clare Rigg - Senior Lecturer, Institute of Technology, Tralee; Jim Stewart - Professor of Human Resource Development at Nottingham Business School; and Professor Kiran Trehan - Head of Management, University of Central England. List of Contributors: Dr Sally Sambrook - University of Wales Bangor Professor Time Hatcher - North Carolina State University, USA Professor Russ Vince, University of Glamorgan Beverley Metcalfe, Manchester Business School Helen Francis, Napier University Jean Kellie, University of Hull Lisa Anderson & Richard Thorpe, University of Salford Claire Valentin, The University of Edinburgh Brendon Harvey, Coventry University Business School Dr Valerie Owen-Pugh, University of Leicester Len Holmes, London Metropolitan University Professor Monica Lee, University of Lancaster

Table of Contents

Introduction- A critical take on a critical turn in HRD (Clare Rigg, Jim Stewart & Kiran Trehan) Part One - A Critical Turn in HRD - Introduction to Part One ch 1. Exploring the notion of 'time' and 'critical' HRD (Sally Sambrook) ch 2. The fallacy of ethics and Human Resource Development: How ethics limits the creation of a 'deep' profession (Tim Hatcher) ch 3. The ethics of HRD (Jim Stewart) Activities for Part One Part Two - In the Workplace - Introduction to Part Two ch 4. Feminism, gender and Human Resource Development (Beverley Dawn Metcalfe) ch 5. The mutation of HRD and strategic change: A critical perspective (Helen Francis) ch 6. Shifting boundaries in work and learning: HRD and the case of corporate education (Jean Kellie) Activities for Part Two Part Three - Constraints in the Classroom - Introduction to Part Three ch 7. Putting the 'C' in HRD (Lisa Anderson and Richard Thorpe) ch 8. How can I teach critical management in this place? A critical pedagogy for HRD: Possibilities, contradictions and compromises (Claire Valentin) ch 9. Chuck out the chintz? 'Stripped floor' writing and the catalogue of convention: Alternative perspectives on management inquiry (Brendon Harvey) Activities for Part Three Part Four - Critique of Critical Orthodoxies - Introduction to Part Four ch 10. Acknowledging conflict in 'Communities of Practice': A figurational perspective on learning and innovating in the workplace (Valerie Owen-Pugh) ch 11. The Learning Turn in education and training: Liberatory paradigm or oppressive ideology? (Leonard Holmes) ch 12. Going beyond a critical turn: Hypocrisies and contradictions (Kiran Trehan, Clare Rigg and Jim Stewart) Activities for Part Four

Additional information

GOR006192881
9780273705598
0273705598
Critical Human Resource Development: Beyond Orthodoxy by Jim Stewart
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2006-09-07
312
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