Skills, Training and Human Resource Development: A Critical Text

ISBN-13: 9781403948021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.

Irena Grugulis

Opis

Taking a critical perspective, Skill, Training and Human Resource Development focuses on the way people are developed at work; the skills that are encouraged, the way they are controlled and the implications they have for people. It draws on a wide range of research and covers an array of organizational practices.

Spis treści

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Human Resource Development.- Skills at Work.- International Comparisons: Skills and Employment Systems.- Vocational Education and Training in Britain.- New Skills for Old? The Changing Nature of Skill.- Emotions and Aesthetics for Work and Labour: The Pleasures and Pains of the Changing Nature of Work.- Managing Culture.- Management and Leadership Development.- Knowledge Work and Knowledgeable Workers.- Developments and Developing in the New Economy.- References.- Index.

O autorze

IRENA GRUGULIS is a Professor of Employment Studies and the Head of the Human Resource Management Group at Bradford University School of Management, UK.