Training in the Workplace
Critical Perspectives on Learning at Work
Published on 3. October 2000
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-333-61671-0 (ISBN)
Description
Aimed at MBA and post-experience students as well as advanced undergraduates, this book targets their needs and interests by providing a practical, experience-led approach whilst still maintaining a critical focus. - The well-known contributors defeat the criticism that training is a 'dry' subject by focusing on the relevance of training to the workplace and the management of change.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Weight
615 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-61671-0 (9780333616710)
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Helen Rainbird
Training in the Workplace
Book
11/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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Additional editions
Helen Rainbird
Training in the Workplace
Book
11/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
HELEN RAINBIRD is Professor of Industrial Relations at University College Northampton and an Associate Fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. She has researched and written on the interface between industrial relations and vocational training and has a particular interest in trade unions and workplace learning. Her research interests include the comparative European Dimension on training policy and institutions; the relationship between access to learning and inequality at work; and the concept of apprenticeship as a model of learning. She has a close working relationship with the public sector union, UNISON.
Content
Introduction and Overview; H.Rainbird - The Organisation of the Training Function in Large Firms; S.Carey - Reconciling Individual and Organisational Development: Issues in the Retail Banking Sector; E.Antonacopoulou - Performance Management and Training; B.Hansen - Multinational Companies: Innovators or Adaptors?; P.Marginson - Training in Greenfield Sites; H.Newell - Training and New Forms of Work Organisation; C.Rees - Workplace Industrial Relations and Training; J.Heyes - The Worker Basic Skills 'Crisis': Some Industrial Relations Implications; S.Hoddinott - Unions and Workplace Learning: Conflict or Cooperation with the Employer?; J.Sutherland & H.Rainbird - Work Placements for Young People; P.Huddleston - What Engineers Learn in the Workplace and How They Learn It; P.Senker - Adult Learning and the Workplace; P.Caldwell - Workplace Learning and the Limits to Evaluation; L.Holly & H.Rainbird