Skills, Training and Human Resource Development
A Critical Text
Published on 22. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4039-4802-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-4802-1 (9781403948021)
DOI
10.1057/9780230208346
Schweitzer Classification
Person
IRENA GRUGULIS is a Professor of Employment Studies and the Head of the Human Resource Management Group at Bradford University School of Management, UK.
Content
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.