Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource DevelopmentRoutledge, 6. 12. 2012 - 224 strán (strany) Informal learning has become an extremely important issue as post-industrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential. Managers and HRD practitioners have attempted to deploy informal learning in the design of corporate cultures, however, most discussions of the subject have tended to be uncritical expositions which do not challenge the underlying economic, philosophical and organisational rationale. Uniquely, this book goes against this tendency. It critically examines definitions of informal learning, and focuses on its application in a variety of workplace contexts. It features: * theories of informal learning Incorporating case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM practitioners, and a detailed glossary of key concepts and issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students of workplace learning. |
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... competence'. In this discourse, the purpose of 'skills acquisition', including skills learned informally, is to enhance competitiveness. Indeed, the aim of developing a 'competent' workforce – to compete internationally against emerging ...
... competence'. At the same time they experience informal learning in the everyday so that their stories represent an intersection between discourses and lived realities: they speak the tensions. Their stories are discursively constructed ...
... competent. It is the dominant language of 'human resource development', and has the backing of industry, governments and unions. The language of experiential or 'experience-based learning' is being promoted as a valid form of knowledge ...
... competence, total quality management (TQM), empowerment, self-direction, learning organisations, and so on. Economic and instrumental rationality are at the heart of the knowledge frameworks associated with each ofthese discourses as ...
... competence is acquired largely through experience'. With often repeated government aims to become more competitive, structural changes are occurring throughout private and public sector enterprises in most OECD nations. Such changes are ...
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Unmasking the language of HRD | 38 |
4 The hidden curriculum of learning at work | 60 |
5 Professional identity and selfregulation at work | 81 |
6 The performativity principle in informal learning | 101 |
7 Retheorising informal workplace learning | 124 |
Postscript | 151 |
The research methods | 161 |
Glossary | 169 |
Bibliography | 182 |
Index | 199 |
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Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 2012 |
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 1998 |
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 1998 |