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Efnisyfirlit
- About the author
- Preface
- Introduction
- Structure and content
- Pedagogical and support features
- Online resources
- Part I Micro-HRD
- 1 Setting the scene for human resource development (HRD)
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- Introduction
- Growth and consolidation of HRD
- HRD’s identity
- Theory in HRD
- Research philosophy and HRD
- Ethics and purpose in HRD
- Critical HRD
- Conclusion: Meanings and purposes
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- Skills development 1: Preparing for and getting a job in HRD
- 2 Inside the ‘black box’
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- Introduction
- Learning
- Behaviourist theories of learning
- Cognitive theories of learning
- Memory’s role in learning
- Cognitive learning theory and HRD
- Cognitive theory and motivation
- Criticisms of the cognitive approach
- Conclusion: Meta-learning
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- Skills development 2: Using behaviourist and cognitive learning theory to enhance on-job training (OJT)
- 3 Learning from and with others
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- Introduction
- Social learning theory
- Social cognitive learning theory
- Social learning theory and HRD
- Situated learning theory
- Learning, legitimacy and participation
- Situated learning processes
- Apprenticeships
- Criticisms of situated learning
- Conclusion: Human nature
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- Skills development 3: Write a learning autobiography
- 4 Experience-based modalities of learning
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- Introduction
- Experiential learning theory
- ELT and learning styles
- Criticisms of experiential learning theory
- Action learning
- Action learning in practice
- Andragogy
- Conclusion: Learning to think
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- Skills development 4: Analysing an experience of learning in the workplace
- 5 ‘Neurolearning’ and HRD
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- Introduction
- Neuroscience and HRD: ‘Caveat emptor’
- Brain science basics
- Plasticity
- Neurodiversity and learning
- Emotions and learning
- Mindfulness and learning
- Ageing and learning
- Conclusion: HRD at the ‘cutting edge’
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- Skills development 5: Creating guidelines for brain-based HRD
- 6 Formal and informal learning
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- Introduction
- Formal learning and employee training
- Transfer of learning
- Simulation training
- The learning transfer environment
- Maximizing the impact of training
- Informal and incidental learning
- Processes of informal learning
- Conclusion: Learning and working
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- Skills development 6: Challenging tradition
- 7 Maximizing employees’ potential
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- Introduction
- Coaching and mentoring
- The rise and practice of coaching
- Mentoring
- Career and talent development
- Career development and HRD
- Leadership
- Leadership frameworks and leader power
- Leader and leadership development
- Conclusion: Character, practical intelligence and wisdom
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- Skills development 7: Getting the recipe ‘right’ for leader and leadership development
- Part II Macro-HRD
- 8 The bigger picture
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- Introduction
- Megatrends
- Globalization
- Technology
- Demographics
- Stakeholders
- Power, politics and diversity
- Environmental sustainability
- Trust and HRD
- Conclusion: Grand challenges
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- Skills development 8: Grand challenges and HRD’s response
- 9 HRD as a strategic partner
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- Introduction
- Theory and strategic HRD: Penrose’s and Barney’s contributions
- Dynamic capabilities and HRD
- Strategy and human resources
- Strategic human resource development (SHRD)
- Criticisms of strategic approaches
- Conclusion: Strategic alignment and strategic partnership
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- Skills development 9: ‘Just the job’?
- 10 The HRD system
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- Introduction
- Identifying and analysing learning and development needs
- HRD function and its stakeholders
- The HRD system in smaller firms
- HRD and organization development
- International HRD
- The learning ‘ecosystem’
- Conclusion: Agile HRD
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- Skills development 10: Personal development planning
- 11 Hybrid HRD
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- Introduction
- Historical background of technology-based learning
- Digital learning
- Blended learning
- Advantages and disadvantages of technology-based methods
- ‘70:20:10’
- Criticisms of 70:20:10
- Conclusion: The means to an end
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- Skills development 11: Making the case for hybrid HRD in barista training
- 12 Does HRD cost or pay?
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- Introduction
- Evaluation defined
- Purposes of evaluating HRD
- Kirkpatrick’s four-level framework
- Return-on-investment (ROI, level 5) evaluation
- Criticisms of, and alternatives to, levels-of-outcome models
- Conclusion: Whose ‘bottom line’?
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- Skills development 12: Designing an evaluation
- 13 The only sustainable source of competitive advantage
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- Introduction
- Learning and corporate longevity
- Mental models
- Assimilation and accommodation
- The upsides and downsides of mental models
- Routines
- A behavioural theory of organizational learning
- Levels of learning
- A cognitive theory of organizational learning
- Conclusion: A ‘coming of age’?
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- Skills development 13: Single- and double-loop learning in action
- 14 Knowledge and the new learning organization
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- Introduction
- Organizational knowledge
- Types of knowledge
- Knowledge creation and management
- Criticisms of Nonaka’s SECI model
- The learning organization
- Senge’s five disciplines of a learning organization
- Marsick and Watkins’ dimensions of a learning organization
- Criticisms of The Learning Organization
- Conclusion: Now’s the time?
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- Skills development 14: Gaining support for the ‘learning organization’ through the appointment of a chief learning officer (CLO)
- References
- Index




