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
June 18, 2024
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 ...
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, 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 J. 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 ...
Managing Performance Abroad: A New Model for Understanding Expatriate Adjustment
1st Edition
By Arno Haslberger, Chris Brewster, Thomas Hippler
June 08, 2018
In a global economy full of multinational firms, international human resource management (including expatriation, career management, and talent management) is a growing topic in the business and management literature and in universities. A thorough understanding of the adjustment of expatriates to ...
Human Resource Development as We Know It: Speeches that Have Shaped the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Lee
May 24, 2017
The field of Human Resource Development has developed largely through academics, scholars and reflective practitioners from across the world coming together. Many people link memorable keynote speeches to changes in their research, practice, career path or even life view. Good keynote speeches are ...
New Ways of Organizing Work: Developments, Perspectives, and Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Kelliher, Julia Richardson
July 27, 2016
New Ways of Organizing Work offers a broader understanding of changes to the way work is organized and the implications for relevant stakeholders. It brings together contributions from a well established group of international scholars to examine the nature and consequences of new ways of working. ...
Workplace Learning: Concepts, Measurement and Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne van Woerkom, Rob Poell
May 07, 2015
This edited volume aims to evaluate the promises of workplace learning by addressing the following related questions: What are current developments in theory that informs workplace learning research? How can learning in the workplace be measured? What is the impact of various organizational ...