Human Resource Development
Human Resource Development will provide both thought-provoking questions and stimulating answers to the key factors in HR development today. Human Resource Development is the ideal handbook for all professional trainers and provides core information needed by all professional students of this subject. This new second edition has been fully updated and revised, with the inclusion of three new chapters making this the most topical book in this field:
“The book will provide both thought-provoking questions and stimulating answers to the key factors in HR development today.”
IT Training
Human Resource Development is the ideal handbook for all professional trainers and provides core information needed by all professional students of this subject. This new second edition has been fully updated and revised, with the inclusion of three new chapters making this the most topical book in this field: *Design, Development and Application of E-learning; *Knowledge Management & Transfer; *Human & Intellectual Capital.
Clearly structured with detailed sections covering each aspect of the training cycle, the book also includes sections on: *The Role of Learning Training and Development in Organisations *Learning and Competitive Strategy * The Identification of Learning, Training and Development Needs * The Planning and Designing of Learning, Training and Development *Delivering Learning, Training and Development *Assessment and Evaluation of Learning, Training and development *Managing the Human Resource Development Function
Co-ordinated and edited by Dr John P. Wilson, individual contributors include Professor Geoff Chivers, Professor of Continuing Education, Sheffield University, Joan Keogh OBE and Colin Beard both senior lecturers, Sheffield Hallam University, Alan Cattall, University of Bradford plus many more leading academics in the field of Human Resource Development.
REVIEWS :“Well referenced and again finds a good balance between theory and
practice…both current and strategic whilst also taking into account
future considerations and developments.”
Industrial and Commercial Training
“A lot of valuable information…divided into logical sections.”
Training Journal
“The book will provide both thought-provoking questions and
stimulating answers to the key factors in HR development today.”
IT Training
Paperback, 592 Pages, Dimensions 246 x 189 MM Language English.
John is an independent consultant and researcher with wide experience of change in both the academic and private sectors. His consultancy work includes two years in Sweden working for Volvo, Alpha Laval and a number of educational institutions and four years in an Industrial Training Centre for an oil company in Saudi Arabia.
John previously worked as CPD Manager at the University of Oxford and has also been involved with work based learning at the University of Bradford. For a number of years he worked at the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield where he was a lecturer in Human Resource Management and Course Director of the MEd in Training and Development.