Human Resource Development
In the Knowledge Economy
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-333-99014-8 (ISBN)
Description
This critical approach to the study of human resource development 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", the text draws readers through a reflection of human resource development's past and current organizational role and impact, analysing the role human resource development can play in an increasingly knowledge based environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-99014-8 (9780333990148)
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Persons
ROSEMARY HARRISON is Chief Examiner for Employee Development at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She is also an Associate ember at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Durham - JOSEPH KESSELS is Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands
Content
PART ONE: THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY - Setting the Scene - Organisational Perspectives: Strategising... - ... And Organising - HRD Country Frameworks - HRD: Emerging Challenges - HRD: The State of Play - PART TWO: Building Knowledge Productive Organisations - Notions of Knowledge - The Knowledge Productive Organisation - 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 -