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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... knowledge. HRD managers and practitioners from several multinational corporations and public organisations tell 'stories' that challenge assumptions about corporate uses ofinformal learning and its alignment with competency-based ...
... knowledge associated with the 'postmodern condition'. Debates over informal learning within the fields of practice of management and human resource development (HRD) have tended to focus on how it can be enhanced, or what can be done to ...
... knowledge gives us power over the self, Foucault seeks to demonstrate how power shapes our knowledge of the self. For this text I am particularly interested in subjective experience. 2 What is informal learning in the workplace?
... knowledge frameworks associated with each ofthese discourses as they are applied in Western societies. Knowledge is prized in so far as it can generate a market advantage (or service an operational area that has the capabilities to ...
... knowledge becomes characterised by what people actually do – and are seen to be doing. 'Performativity' requirements (Lyotard 1984) including financial and numerical performance indicators, become valorised. If something cannot be shown ...
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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 |