Critical Human Resource Development or Archaeology of the Roman Economy

Critical Human Resource Development: Beyond Orthodoxy

Author: Jim Stewart

CRITICAL HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT – BEYOND ORTHODOXY

  

'A much-needed resource for Human Resource Development practitioners, professionals and master's students.  HRD is a serious endeavour and a critical view is necessary to deepen our understanding.  A book to force HRD into maturity.' - Jeff  Gold , Leeds Metropolitan University

'This book takes a critical stance and focuses not only on organisational goals, but also those of other stakeholders and society at large. This book should be of great interest to lecturers, students and practitioners who are aching for a more critical analysis. Precisely what is required at postgraduate level'- Professor Mick Marchington, Manchester Business School & Chief Moderator for Standards for the CIPD

 

Critical Human Resource Development –Beyond Orthodoxy offers the latest thinking and research in the area.  Leading experts inform and support current discussion and debate on the nature and practice of HRD.  The theoretical ideas of Critical HRD are discussed and the latest research addressing the practice of HRD is presented and analysed from a critical perspective.

 

The contributions provide an original set of insights into the potential benefits and pitfalls, expectations and concerns of advancing a critical view of HRD in practice.  The book’s strength lies in bridging the gap between theory and practice by offering practical ideas and examples. 

 

Key features:
• Written by subject-leading editors and contributors
• Includes analysis of attempts toimplement Critical HRD in the workplace
• Cutting edge research and up-to-the minute examples
• Section introductions and summary and discussion questions to provoke further debate

 

Critical Human Resource Development –Beyond Orthodoxy is relevant to postgraduate students at diploma, master's and doctorate level, both on specific HRD and HRM courses, and on specialist HRD modules within general management and business courses.

 

Dr Clare Rigg is Senior Lecturer, Institute of Technology, Tralee; Jim Stewart is Professor of Human Resource Development at Nottingham Business School; and Professor Kiran Trehan is Head of Management, University of Central England.

Table of Contents:

About the contributors     vii
Acknowledgements     x
Introduction. A critical take on a critical turn in HRD   Clare Rigg   Jim Stewart   Kiran Trehan     1
A Critical Turn in Human Resource Development     17
Introduction to Part One     19
Exploring the notion of 'time' and 'critical' HRD   Sally Sambrook     23
The fallacy of ethics and HRD: how ethics limits the creation of a 'deep' profession   Tim Hatcher     43
The ethics of HRD   Jim Stewart     59
Activities for Part One     79
In the Workplace     81
Introduction to Part Two     83
Feminism, gender and HRD   Beverly Dawn Metcalfe   Christopher J. Rees     87
The mutation of HRD and strategic change: a critical perspective   Helen Francis     107
Shifting boundaries in work and learning: HRD and the case of corporate education   Jean Kellie     129
Activities for Part Two     145
Constraints in the Classroom     147
Introduction to Part Three     149
Putting the 'C' in HRD   Lisa Anderson   Richard Thorpe     153
How can I teach criticalmanagement in this place? A critical pedagogy for HRD: possibilities, contradictions and compromises   Claire Valentin     169
Chuck out the chintz? 'Stripped floor' writing and the catalogue of convention: alternative perspectives on management inquiry   Brendon Harvey     181
Activities for Part Three     197
Critique of Critical Orthodoxies     199
Introduction to Part Four     201
Acknowledging conflict in 'communities of practice': a figurational perspective on learning and innovating in the workplace   Valerie Owen-Pugh     205
The learning turn in education and training: liberatory paradigm or oppressive ideology?   Leonard Holmes     221
Going beyond a critical turn: hypocrisies and contradictions   Kiran Trehan   Clare Rigg   Jim Stewart     239
Activities for Part Four     251
References and further reading     253
Index     289

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Archaeology of the Roman Economy

Author: Kevin Green

Kevin Greene shows how archaeology can help provide a more balanced view of the Roman economy by informing the classical historian about geographical areas and classes of society that received little attention from the largely aristocratic classical writers whose work survives.