Jim McGoldrick / Sandra Watson (eds.)

Understanding Human Resource Development

A Research-based Approach
Herausgeber: Mcgoldrick, Jim; Watson, Sandra; Stewart, Jim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume contains original chapters by some of the laeding researchers and writers in the field of HRD. It provides a definitive work on the design and conduct of research in HRD and, in doing so, identifies and examines key issues and debates concerning methodological principles and the possibilities and limitations of particular methods and techniques. Drawing on the contributors' own current research projects, the content also provides insights into the latest HRD methods and practices. Thus, emerging debates on the purpose, nature and practice of HRD are also examined, and the theoretical base of HRD is advanced. Each chapter in the book includes the following features: Statement of aims Description of theoretical and empirical context Identification and examination of methodological issues Description and evaluation of research design Critical analysis and evaluation Key learning points

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 142mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780415226103
• ISBN-10: 0415226104
• Artikelnr.: 21240149

Autorenporträt

Sandra Watson, Jim McGoldrick, Jim Stewart

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Researching HRD: philosophy, process and practice 2 Defining the
research question: on seizing the moment as the research question emerges 3
Problems of method in HRD research: company-based lifelong learning and
'longitudinality' 4 The tools of freedom and the sources of indignity 5
Towards evidence-based HRD practice 6 Researching HRD in small
organizations 7 Evaluating the impact of management development on
performance 8 Learning for change by telling stories 9 Learning to change,
changing to learn: case studies in the automotive sector 10 Analysing
quantitative research 11 Writing the research story 12 Ethical issues in
HRD research 13 Implementing networked learning with HRD professionals
internationally 14 Implications for reflective HRD practitioners of the
influence of life experience on managers' career decisions 15 Going
native!: ethnographic research in HRD 16 Convergence and divergence in HRD:
research and practice across Europe 17 Using action research to explore the
development needs of second generation Asian small businesses 18 A new
approach to the literature review 19 Postscript: the future for HRD
research