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Human Resource Development (HRD) involves the design, delivery and evaluation of learning and/or training interventions within organisations to improve the work performance of individuals and groups. This edited collection will demonstrate the potential of identity theorising for problematizing and reconceptualising HRD activities. Identity will thus be established as a foundation for enhancing HRD policy and practice. While identity has emerged as a key focus for theoretical debate and for empirical research within management and organisational studies, the potential of identity as a new paradigm for understanding learning and for examining HRD more broadly is still emergent. That identity has such potential can be seen in the increasing recognition that training and development for many contemporary occupations represents nothing less than a "project of the self". Identity as a Foundation for Human Resource Development will complete a gap in the market providing sound, single source, theoretical foundations from the latest trends in identity theorising, now a key area of organisation studies, and apply these to HRD policy and practice. The emphasis throughout will be on informing HRD policy and practice, research and education the book includes a chapter on resources and techniques for HRD educators. In short, the book will "put identity to work" for HRD scholars. The intended audiences are Human Resource Development scholars, academics, students and professionals, this exciting new volume will provide a thoughtful theoretical analysis and operational practise for modern HRD.
Editor(s): Black K, Warhurst R, Corlett S
Series Editor(s): Monica Lee
Publication type: Edited Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
Year: 2018
Number of Pages: 268
Print publication date: 09/07/2017
Online publication date: 25/08/2017
Acceptance date: 31/07/2017
Publisher: Routledge
Place Published: London and New York
URL: https://www.routledge.com/Identity-as-a-Foundation-for-Human-Resource-Development/Black-Warhurst-Corlett/p/book/9781138945319
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ISBN: 9781138945319
