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Briar-Lawson, Katharine; Leake, Robin; Dickinson, Nancy; McCarthy, Mary; Anderson, Gary; Groza, Victor; Gilmore, Grover C. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Responding to David Stoesz's invited article criticizing the Children's Bureau and the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI), the author's inaccurate assertions are challenged, and new information is provided about the significant work underway to support the child welfare workforce. The Children's Bureau has made historic investments…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Labor Force Development, Criticism, Reader Response
Ellett, Alberta J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
This article is a critique of David Stoesz' descriptions of organizational issues in child welfare, and more specifically, the relationships between the U.S. Children's Bureau and the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute. The focus is on Stoesz perspectives and assessments of sub-entities (cartels) that are currently influencing funding and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Criticism, Reader Response, Organizational Effectiveness
Lawless, Aileen; Sambrook, Sally; Garavan, Tom; Valentin, Claire – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how a discourse approach to theorising human resource development (HRD) can open a "discursive space" to challenge dominant discourses within the field; enabling a more critical discourse to emerge. Design/methodology/approach: Discusses two approaches to discourse analysis, a "practice" and a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Discourse Analysis, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
Bierema, Laura L. – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
The purpose of this article is to critique human resource development's (HRD) dominant philosophy, practices, and research; illustrate how they negatively affect women HRD practitioners and recipients; and recommend alternative conceptualizations of the field. This article is grounded in a critical feminist theoretical framework, draws on critical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Masculinity
Torraco, Richard J. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2005
Six theoretical perspectives on work design are examined for their contributions to our understanding of how work is organized and designed in organizations: sociotechnical systems theory, process improvement, adaptive structuration theory, the job characteristics model, technostructural change models, and activity theory. A critique of these…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Human Resources, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force Development
Kuchinke, K. Peter – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
The recent vehement and highly visible critique of the North American business school curriculum illuminates core tensions in the field of human resource development (HRD) related to the role and responsibility of the profession in for-profit organizations and the educative process by which future practitioners are prepared. If the business school…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Business Administration Education, College Programs
Bowman, Jeffry S. – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
In reference to Peter Kuchinke's manuscript, the author points out that current MBA programs suffer from a myriad of ills that are somehow detrimental to organizations and that there is a similar problem with human resource development (HRD) programs (hence the reference in the title to "birds of a feather"). In this article, he shares his…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Personnel Management, Work Environment
May, Gary L. – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
Peter Kuchinke has written a powerful and relevant article that should generate much discussion in the human resource development (HRD) community. The focus of Kuchinke's paper is the question of whether HRD academic programs should emulate the value preference of business schools or march to a different drum. In this response, the author argues…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Values, Criticism
Kraak, Andre – Journal of Education and Work, 2005
This article presents a critique of the 'high skills' argument which, in the international literature, presents a high skill strategy as an adjunct and necessary condition for the successful expansion of human resources development (HRD) alongside social market institutions and 'joined up' policy. For a developing country such as South Africa,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Unemployment, Human Resources
Sheared, Vanessa, Ed.; Sissel, Peggy A., Ed. – 2001
This book represents the beginning dialogue and critique of social, political, economic, and historical forms of hegemony operating in the adult education field. Twenty-three chapters are grouped into five sections. Section I, Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in Adult Education, offers a dialogue on hegemony and critiques the philosophical,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy