Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
About the Book Series
HRD theory is changing rapidly. Recent advances in theory and practice, in how we conceive of organizations and of the world of knowledge, have led to the need to reinterpret the field. This series aims to reflect and foster the development of HRD as an emergent discipline. Encompassing a range of different international, organizational, methodological and theoretical perspectives, the series promotes theoretical controversy and reflective practice.
Feminism, Diversity and HRD
1st Edition
By Beverly Dawn Metcalfe, Yasmeen Makarem
December 26, 2025
Feminism, Diversity and HRD aims to enhance critical understandings of feminism, diversity and HRD theorization and practice in the global political economy. This involves addressing race, class and intersectional approaches to evaluating inequalities in society/organizations. The book will bring ...
International HRM and Development in Emerging Market Multinationals
1st Edition
Edited
By Paresha Sinha, Parth Patel, Verma Prikshat
September 25, 2023
Emerging multinational enterprises (or EMNEs) have made a huge impact on the international business stage by internationalising at a rapid rate. And they have performed remarkably well in both developing and developed countries. Accordingly, there is a growing strand of literature on how EMNEs ...
Critical Human Resource Management: People Management Across the Global South and North
1st Edition
By Dhammika Jayawardena
January 09, 2023
Human resource management (HRM) is the predominant apparatus for people management across the world. Since its inception, HRM has nevertheless been subjected to critical scrutiny. This work has produced a corpus of literature now referred to as ‘Critical HRM’. This book on Critical HRM traces the ...
The Global Business of Coaching: A Meta-Analytical Perspective
1st Edition
By David Lines, Christina Evans
April 29, 2022
Coaching has become a global business phenomenon, yet the way that coaching has evolved and spread across the globe is not unproblematic. Some of these challenges include: different types/genres of coaching; understanding and relevance of different coaching philosophies and models in different ...
Human Resource Management in an Emerging South Asian Economy: The Case of Brunei
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamer K. Darwish, Pengiran Muda Abdul Fattaah
September 30, 2021
This book focuses on human resource management (HRM) in the country context of Brunei Darussalam, analysing, comparing and contrasting domestic enterprises (DEs) with multinational enterprises (MNEs), and oil and gas with non-oil and -gas sectors, and draws out the comparative lessons for ...
Positive Ageing and Human Resource Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Diane Keeble-Ramsay, Andrew Armitage
December 18, 2020
Positive Ageing and Human Resource Development seeks to introduce readers to some of the major cultural issues that the current demographic changes of the workforce as the national default retirement age within the UK has moved from 60 to 67 and beyond represent for the workplace. This phenomenon ...
Work, Working and Work Relationships in a Changing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Kelliher, Julia Richardson
December 18, 2020
This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years. While technological innovation has been a key contributor to the nature and pace of change, other social and market trends have also played a part such as ...
Identity as a Foundation for Human Resource Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Black, Russell Warhurst, Sandra Corlett
December 05, 2019
Human Resource Development (HRD) involves the design, delivery and evaluation of learning and/or training interventions within organisations to improve the work performance of individuals and groups. This edited collection will demonstrate the potential of identity theorising for problematizing and...
On the Nature of Human Resource Development: Holistic Agency and an Almost-Autoethnographical Exploration of Becoming
1st Edition
By Monica Lee
October 25, 2018
The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic – the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lee’s seminal 2001 paper which refused to define the discipline of HRD, but has been accentuated by increasing globalization, political unrest, inequality and the ...
Human Resources, Care Giving, Career Progression and Gender: A Gender Neutral Glass Ceiling
1st Edition
By Edward J. Coyne, Monica Lee
August 09, 2018
This book presents a challenge to feminist perspectives that see the glass ceiling as the exclusive domain of women's careers and work life. The authors address existing debates and extend them to include original empirical evidence from several US and UK comparative studies that look at the effect...
Global Human Resource Development: Regional and Country Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Garavan, Alma McCarthy, Michael Morley
June 08, 2018
Drawing on contributions from leading academics in the field, this volume within the Routledge Series in Human Resource Development specifically focuses on Global Human Resource Development (HRD). Specifically, the volume provides an overview of 17 regions, 85 countries and includes one emerging ...
Human Resource Development in the Russian Federation
1st Edition
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Elena Zavyalova
June 08, 2018
Unlike Brazil, India, or China, prior to the beginning of market-oriented reforms in early 1990s, Russia maintained a high level of human capital and possessed a highly developed system of vocational education, continuous education, and management development institutions sponsored by the ...