/ edited by Jim McGoldrick, Jim Stewart, and Sandra Watson
xx, 407 pages
: illustrations ; cm.
(Routledge studies in human resource development)
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 15, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
e
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Researching HRD: philosophy, process and practice / Jim Mcgoldrick, Jim Stewart, Sandra Watson -- Defining the research question: on seizing the moment as the research question emerges / Monica Lee -- Problems of method in HRD research: company-based lifelong learning and 'longitudinality' / Jim Mcgoldrick, Graeme Martin, Judy Pate -- The tools of freedom and the sources of indignity / John Hamblett, Rick Holden, Denise Thursfield -- Towards evidence-based HRD practice / Bob Hamlin -- Researching HRD in small organizations / Rosemary Hill -- Evaluating the impact of management development on performance / Jonathan Winterton, Ruth Winterton -- Learning for change by telling stories / Jeff Gold, Stuart Watson, Mike Rix -- Learning to change, changing to learn: case studies in the automotive sector / Penny West -- Analysing quantitative research / Darren C. Short, K. Peter Kuchinke -- Writing the research story / Sally Sambrook -- Ethical issues in HRD research / Rona S. Beattie, Marilyn Mcdougall -- Implementing networked learning with HRD professionals internationally / Catherine Edwards -- Implications for reflective HRD practitioners of the influence of life experience on managers' career decisions / Goronwy Davies, Tony Wilson -- Going native!: ethnographic research in HRD / Rona S. Beattie -- Convergence and divergence in HRD: research and practice across Europe / Jean Woodall, Alison Alker, Christina Macneil, Sue Shaw -- Using action research to explore the development needs of second generation Asian small businesses / Clare Rigg, Kiran Trehan, Monder Ram -- A new approach to the literature review / Sally Sambrook -- Postscript: the future for HRD research / Jim Mcgoldrick, Jim Stewart, Sandra Watson.