Training in the Workplace
Published on 7. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-333-61672-7 (ISBN)
Description
Aimed at MBA and Masters students and Human Resources Professionals, Training in the Workplace provides an experience-led analysis of workplace training and development.
Drawing on both critically informed empirical research and on Trainer expertise, the book presents the view that the workplace, and specifically workplace training, is a site of conflict between labour and management.
In order to give a full view of the issues, tensions and complexity of learning in the workplace, the authors analyse the procedures, resources and outcomes of training, learning and workplace socialisation.
Training in the Workplace offers postgraduate and post-experience students and professionals a critical and engaging insight into the workplace as a problematic, contested but significant site of learning.
Drawing on both critically informed empirical research and on Trainer expertise, the book presents the view that the workplace, and specifically workplace training, is a site of conflict between labour and management.
In order to give a full view of the issues, tensions and complexity of learning in the workplace, the authors analyse the procedures, resources and outcomes of training, learning and workplace socialisation.
Training in the Workplace offers postgraduate and post-experience students and professionals a critical and engaging insight into the workplace as a problematic, contested but significant site of learning.
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Series
Edition
2000
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
320 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-61672-7 (9780333616727)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-21276-3
Schweitzer Classification
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10/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€85.42
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10/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€85.42
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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.