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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... industrial corporations now use communication practices based on 'team work', self-direction, empowered workers and nonhierarchical work arrangements to design organisational 'culture'. These practices are, in this study, viewed as ...
... industry, governments and unions. The language of experiential or 'experience-based learning' is being promoted as a valid form of knowledge acquisition. 'Talk' about work-based learning is thus in the terms of a discourse about human ...
... industries are perceived by the various national governments, unions and industry leaders as significant concerns for standards ofliving for future generations. It is precisely this language which is prevalent in current industrial and ...
... industry bodies as the solution to problems of modernisation and the future and, as Marginson points out, 'in these ... industrial relations implications for the roles, purposes and practices ofworkplace trainers. It is thus pertinent to ...
... industry discourses seeking an alignment between industry demands for efficiencies and productivity, and education goals for selfdirected learners, and, indeed, new markets. Learning informally has another connotation that relates to ...
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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 |