Human Resource Development in a Knowledge Economy: An Organizational View

ISBN-13: 9780333990155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 301 str.

Rosemary Harrison

Opis

Human Resource Development in a Knowledge Economy provides a critical approach to the study of human resource development and emphasizes the need for its effective integration with human resource management, as well as with the strategic management of the organization. With special reference to workers in the 'knowledge economy' Human Resource Development in a Knowledge Economy draws readers through a stimulating reflection of human resource development's past and current organizational role and impact, analyzing the role human resource development can play in an increasingly knowledge-based environment.

Spis treści

PART ONE: THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY.- Setting the Scene.- Organizational Perspectives: Strategizing....- ... And Organizing.- HRD Country Frameworks.- HRD: Emerging Challenges.- HRD: The State of Play.- PART TWO: Building Knowledge Productive Organizations.- Notions of Knowledge.- The Knowledge Productive Organization.- Researching Knowledge Productivity.- New Technology, the Knowledge Process and HRD.- PART THREE: HRD: Challenges in a Knowledge Economy.- The Ethical Dimension.- Where to now for HRD.

O autorze

ROSEMARY HARRISON is Chief Examiner for Learning and Development at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was previously Director of the HRD Research Unit at the University of Durham.

JOSEPH KESSELS is Professor of HRD at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and consultant at the HRD consultancy firm, Kessels & Smit.