Description
Human Resource Development in a Knowledge Economy provides a critical approach to the study of human resource development, emphasising the need for its effective integration with human resources management and wider strategic management of organisations. The text draws readers through a stimulating reflection on human resource development's past, current and potential future organisational role and impact, powerfully linking its domain to that of learning and knowledge in an emerging knowledge-based economy.
Drawing on a broad selection of recent literature and international research from Europe, the USA and Japan, Human Resource Development in a Knowledge Economy is an excellent core textbook for all students of human resource development, human resource management and business strategy, especially at postgraduate and professional levels.Contents
PART ONE: THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Setting the Scene
Organisational Perspectives: Strategising And Organising
HRD Country Frameworks
HRD: Emerging Challenges
HRD: The State of Play
PART TWO: Building Knowledge Productive Organisations
Notions of Knowledge
The Knowledge Productive Organisation
Researching Knowledge Productivity
New Technology, the Knowledge Process and HRD
PART THREE: HRD: Challenges in a Knowledge Economy
The Ethical Dimension
Where to now for HRDAbout the authors
Rosemary Harrison
Rosemary Harrison has been the CIPD''s Chief Examiner, Employee Development/Learning and Development since 1996 and was formerly Director of the HRD Research Centre, University of Durham. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Member of the Society of Authors.
She is the author of many articles, chapters and texts on human resource management and development, including Learning and Development (2002) and the CIPD Learning and Development Revision Guide (2005). She has a long record of consultancy and research in the strategic HRM and HRD fields and has written about much of that work in her various publications.Professor J Kessels
JOSEPH KESSELS is Professor of HRD at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and consultant at the HRD consultancy firm, Kessels & Smit.