Skills, Training and Human Resource Development

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.