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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... learning • the unmasking ofcontemporary corporate language • the implications for accounts of workplace learning of poststructuralist and postmodern perspectives • case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM ...
... learning and its alignment with competency-based training. Being at work entails far more than simply performing the tasks one is required to do, and in turn, affects the links between informal learning and formal education. The ...
... based on two years offield work which took me into the everyday work lives and corporate environments of several Human Resource Development managers and practitioners. They and their corporations must remain anonymous, but they have ...
... based standards. A significant part ofthis project is to interpret the reflexive moments, the 'internal dialogues' of workers engaged in their daily operations. Clearly, informal learning involves engagement among persons and between ...
... based on 'team work', self-direction, empowered workers and nonhierarchical work arrangements to design organisational 'culture'. These practices are, in this study, viewed as shapers of the informal learning ofemployees. They 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 |