Human Resource Development
Successful implementation of a successful human resource development (HRD) programme is crucial to any organisation. The third edition of this title lays the foundations for HRD, as well as explaining current ideas and contemporary thinking on the subject.
Successful implementation of a suitable HRD programme is crucial to the success of any organization, and to the self-development of its managers and employees. Human Resource Development takes the reader through the broad range of HRD practices and strategies in use today.
This fully updated third edition is both thorough and accessible and presents fundamental concepts and ideas using the latest research and international case studies. Designed to meet the needs of busy MBA students and practising managers, this book is both academically rigorous and firmly grounded in management practice. Its contents include:
- positioning HRD;
- current leading ideas ;
- approaches to HRD ; learning;
- the contemporary agenda for learning;
- individual learning;
- managing learning and change through groups;
- organisational learning; diagnosis and evaluation;
- management development;
- leveraging the HRD function;
- learning for the future.
Packed with questions, discussion topics as well as a section of case studies, Human Resource Development provides the very latest expert advice on the different strategies of current HRD practice.
REVIEWS :“The fourth edition is even more student friendly and
accessible…The book is full of insights and examples of what one may do
as a practical manager in order to develop one’s staff and one’s self.
This is the greatest strength of the text.”
Review by Arthur Ingram, Queen Margaret University College,
Edinburgh, in Service Industries Journal
“An interesting and well-organised book…The authors go beyind
their own perspective, reporting ideas generated by a number of people
and groups in different contexts...A thoroughly worthwhile read.”
Leadership and Organization Development Journal
Paperback, 319 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 142 MM Language English.
1 Positioning human resource development
2 Current leading ideas Introduction
3 Approaches to human resource development
4 Learning Introduction
5 e-Learning and blended learning
6 Continuous Professional Development
7 HRD and change through groups
8 Organizational learning
9 Diagnosis and evaluation in human resource development
10 Management development
11 Leveraging the human resource development function
David Megginson is Professor of Human Resource Development at Sheffield Hallam University and co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Jennifer Joy Matthews is a lecturer at Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University. She has a particular interest in experimental learning using the out doors for development and situated cognition with particular reference to adults. On a personal basis, Jennifer is a keen gardner and a doting Grandmother. She can be reached at j.joy-matthews@shu.ac.uk
Mark Surtees is a lecturer in HRD at Sheffield Hallam, and has written MBA distance learning packages on strategic HRD and management development. He is also a practising consultant.