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.
Work Process Knowledge
1st Edition
By Nicholas Boreham, Martin Fischer, Renan Samurçay
February 05, 2015
Work Process Knowledge brings together the findings of twenty-four leading researchers on new forms of work and the demands these place on workers' knowledge and skill. Their findings, based on a new set of investigations in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, identify the kinds ...
Aesthetics and Human Resource Development: Connections, Concepts and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Stephen Gibb
August 12, 2014
The first book to look at both aesthetics and human resource development, this timely and original work investigates existing, as well as possible future, connections and relations between the two areas. Well structured and expertly written, The Aesthetic Challenges of Human Resource Development ...
Science Fiction and Organization
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Higgins, Geoff Lightfoot, Martin Parker, Warren Smith
April 09, 2014
Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been ...
Bridge Employment: A Research Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlos-María Alcover, Gabriela Topa, Emma Parry, Franco Fraccaroli, Marco Depolo
April 08, 2014
With the long-term trend toward earlier retirement slowing, and the majority of older workers remaining in employment up to and beyond statutory retirement age, it is increasingly important that we understand how to react to these changes. Bridge employment patterns and activities have changed ...
Interpreting the Maternal Organization
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Höpfl, Monika Kostera
February 25, 2014
Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. There is now a growing need to ...
HRD in a Complex World
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Lee
February 13, 2014
Human Resource Development in a Complex World presents a strong challenge to traditional Human Resource Development. Internationally renowned authors address HRD from within the notions and language of complexity, presenting multifaceted alternative perspectives to the current practice and theory ...
Managing Healthy Organizations: Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm
1st Edition
By Mikael Holmqvist, Christian Maravelias
July 27, 2012
During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. However, little attention has been given to how contemporary worksite health programs in ...
New Frontiers in HRD
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Lee, Jim Stewart, Jean Woodall
July 26, 2012
Factors such as globalisation, restructuring, casualization of employment and the erosion of pension rights have led to massive tensions in contemporary organizations. By exploring the boundaries of the field of Human Resource Development this book asks where is HRD in the middle of all this and ...
Management Development: Perspectives from Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemary Hill, Jim Stewart
April 10, 2012
Recognizing a significant need to continually update the current body of knowledge on management development with the latest innovations in high quality research and practice in various parts of the globe, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the state of research and ...
Rethinking Strategic Learning
1st Edition
By Russ Vince
December 24, 2009
Russ Vince examines learning as both a social and a strategic process, invariably linked to emotions and politics that are mobilized by attempts at learning and organizing. He makes a substantial contribution to theories of organizational learning and develops new ideas about critical reflection ...
Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Carole Elliott, Sharon Turnbull
October 16, 2008
This book provides a reflexive critique of the assumptions of orthodox HRD research and practice and questions the conception of humans as resources, as well as the conventional performative focus of HRD. Examining the broader social, political and economic contexts, the book offers alternative ...
Action Learning, Leadership and Organizational Development in Public Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Rigg, Sue Richards
October 06, 2008
Unprecedented investment is being made in leadership development across the public sector: leadership courses are growing, and development is a core theme of organizational capacity building initiatives. Within this, action learning has attracted increasing interest as an approach that can ...