Description
This textbook presents a comprehensive, balanced and detailed exploration of L&D, making it accessible to all through a clear writing style and a range of learning features such as case studies, examples, questions and exercises.
Written by a leading expert in the field and the former CIPD Chief Examiner, Learning and Development provides an invaluable framework for anyone studying the subject. This fully revised and updated edition covers the most recent trends, challenges and research in L&D.
Online resources
For tutors
- PowerPoint slides
- Lecture notes
- Learning features from the text
Contents
PART 1 UNDERSTANDING THE FIELD
Chapter 1 Learning and Development in Organisations Today
Chapter 2 National Skills Strategy
Chapter 3 Reforming Vocational Education and Training
PART 2 GETTING TO GRIPS WITH THE PRACTICE
Chapter 4 Understanding Learning and the Learners
Chapter 5. Promoting Workplace Learning and Knowledge
Chapter 6. Enhancing Performance Management
Chapter 7 A 6-Stage Training Cycle for Co-creating Value
Chapter 8. The 6-Stage Cycle in Action: A case study
Chapter 9 Achieving Ethical Practice
PART 3 MAKING A BUSINESS CONTRIBUTION
Chapter 10. The L&D Agenda in Different Sectoral Settings
Chapter 11. Shaping and Managing the L&D Function
Chapter 12. Producing and Implementing L&D Strategy
Chapter 13. Developing L&D Partnerships
Chapter 14. Adding Value.
PART 4 BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
Chapter 15. Tackling Challenges of Change
Chapter 16. Promoting Talent and Career Development
Chapter 17. Developing Leaders and Managers
Chapter 18. Pulling the Threads Together: Claims and Challenges
This textbook also comes with a tutor website that includes PowerPoint presentations and notes for tutors
Authors
Rosemary Harrison
Rosemary Harrison was the CIPD's Chief Examiner for Employee Development/Learning and Development and was Director of the HRD Research Centre at the University of Durham.Reviews
'I was a member of Rosemary Harrison's L&D marking team about as long as this book has been in print and so I know it very well. Now in its 5th edition the book remains one of the leading and most authoritative texts available. As usual, Rosemary Harrison has done a first class job on revising and updating the content to reflect both recent research and developments in practice. The book has proven value to both students and practitioners and in my first year as Rosemary's successor to the post of CIPD Chief Examiner for Learning and Development I am happy to recommend it as a suitable core text for the subject.'
Jim Stewart, CIPD Chief Examiner for Learning and Development
'Another impressive edition of this excellent publication which builds on both the breadth and depth of previous editions, and also gives a contemporary focus to the academic discipline'.
David Williams, CIPD Programme Leader, University of Greenwich
`For the Masters programmes on which I teach I feel this text will be invaluable. It clearly links L&D into the strategic aims and objectives of businesses and shows how effective L&D processes can add value.......
The author has used case studies to enhance the text well and made clear links to contemporary business issues.'
Helen Corner, Curriculum Leader CIPD programmes, Doncaster Business School
`This is the best text on the subject... I shall insist that my students invest in it ....The complexity of the field is presented in a realistic and manageable pattern that allows the reader to follow, develop and reflect on the subject in a manner that is both challenging and comforting. [The] style is informative and encouraging and engages the reader in knowledge development and critical evaluation.
The language that is used is an excellent example of how L&D has moved on in the managerial agenda, the business approach, business terminology and business partnering focus all adds to the debate about the contribution of the L&D portfolio. ..... The research focus is a very powerful reminder that the area of L&D is no longer a "beginners area for work" it is very much a part of strategic direction and organisational success.'
Anni Hollings, Principle Lecturer in HRM, Staffordshire University Business School
Previous editions:
'Accessible style of writing, good combination of activities that can be used in class or as individual reflection to extend learning and encourage transfer of learning. The inclusion of websites to look at for further information facilitates wider reading.'
Nicola Small
Lecturer
Solihull College
'This new edition of Learning and Development offers a remarkable journey through this ever-expanding field, providing readers with a clear, systematic and comprehensive understanding of what has become a vast and increasingly complex area. Those readers hoping to make do with the previous edition are in for a rude shock; this book contains so much new material, it is ordered differently, and it is written in an even more engaging way than previous editions.'
Professor Mick Marchington
Professor of Human Resource Management, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester and Chief Moderator, Standards for the CIPD