Publisher Description

Human Resource Development: Critical Perspectives and Practices is a landmark textbook on HRD scholarship and practice and is a significant departure from the standard HRD texts available. Based on Bierema and Callahan's framework for critical human resource development, this book develops an understanding of HRD that addresses both key and contested issues of practice associated with relating, learning, changing, and organizing for organizations.This book covers the basic tenets of HRD, interrogates the dominant paradigms and practices of the field, teaches readers how to critically assess HRD practices and outcomes, and provides critical alternatives. The text also addresses HRD as a contested field and the importance for HRD professionals to reflect on their values, maintain their sanity, and retain their employment while attempting to do this difficult work that serves multiple stakeholders.The text weaves in Points to Ponder, Case in Point, and Tips & Tools features and exercises, giving readers an insight into HRD issues across the globe. This critical text offers an exciting alternative to the instrumentalist, managerialist, and masculine perspective of other books.Designed for students and practitioners, this textbook will be essential reading for upper-level courses on human resource development, human resource management, and adult education.

Table of Contents

ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTION: Introducing the Framework for Critical Human Resource DevelopmentChapter 1. History of HRD and TheoryChapter 2: Metanarratives of HRD: Paradigms, Practice, and ProcessSECTION 2 INTRODUCTION: Relating in CHRDChapter 3: Stakeholders and PowerChapter 4: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and DecolonizationChapter 5: The Role of HRD in Work RelationshipsSECTION 3 INTRODUCTION: Learning in CHRDChapter 6: Learning Theory and PracticeChapter 7: Adult Learning Discourses and Practices in HRDSECTION 4 INTRODUCTION: Changing in CHRDChapter 8: Theory and Practice of ChangeChapter 9: Designing and Implementing HRD InterventionsSECTION 5 INTRODUCTION: Organizing in CHRDChapter 10: Constructing OrganizationsChapter 11: Accountability in HRDSECTION 6 INTRODUCTION: Practicing HRD Holistically Chapter 12: Critical InterventionsChapter 13: Evaluation in HRDChapter 14: The Future of HRD

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