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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... workers' informal learning for productivity and efficiency gains. In the United Kingdom, the USA, and throughout the OECD nations, HRD literature has contributed to a highly instrumental notion of 'informal learning'. It is being used ...
... workers themselves. A close examination of the industrial contexts of the stories, and the emergence of clearer understandings of the parameters of informal learning reveal masks of disguise worn by contemporary 'learning organisations ...
... workers engaged in their daily operations. Clearly, informal learning involves engagement among persons and between persons. But, as Burbules (1995: 13) warns us, 'for this engagement to avoid dependency, there must also be a critical ...
... workers and nonhierarchical work arrangements to design organisational 'culture'. These practices are, in this study, viewed as shapers of the informal learning of employees. They are discursive practices, and their effects on working ...
... workers with their learning? Or are they managers of subtle technologies that help meet economically based ... worker and manager perceptions about the purposes of learning, and the discursive construction of its meanings. The complexity ...
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2 Theorising informal learning | 15 |
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 |