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Wallo, Andreas; Martin, Jason; Sparrhoff, Gun; Kock, Henrik – Journal of Management Education, 2022
Promoting the capacity for critical reflection is a pivotal part of management learning and education. Based on the concept of developmental learning, the purpose of this paper is to explore and outline two types of critical reflection: "critique for improvement" and "critique for emancipation." Critique for improvement is…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Improvement, Management Development, Organizational Change
Sharma, Sonia – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2013
Adult educators often struggle with finding creative ways to help students understand adult learning theories and applications of those theories in professional practice. Media analysis of popular culture can uncomplicate this task by engaging learners in understanding concepts, principles or theories (Baumgartner & Merriam, 1999). The purpose of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Teaching Methods, Human Resources
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
Akella, Devi – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2010
Organisations worldwide have acknowledged the connection between corporate learning, development and business sustainability. Emphasis is being laid on creating and designing a learning organisation "that is skilled at creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring and retaining knowledge" [Garvin, (2000), p.32]. Extensive literature…
Descriptors: Ideology, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Organizational 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
Ty, Rey – Online Submission, 2007
This paper critiques the debate about the purpose of HRD. Furthermore, it presents an integrative literature review that provides a meta-theory, hitherto missing, to explain the reasons for which there are endless disputes in the literature about the purpose of HRD. The synthesis explains that ideology provides the guiding meta-theoretical…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Role, Social Justice
Burke, Lisa A.; Hutchins, Holly M. – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
Given the proliferation of training transfer studies in various disciplines, we provide an integrative and analytical review of factors impacting transfer of training. Relevant empirical research for transfer across the management, human resource development (HRD), training, adult learning, performance improvement, and psychology literatures is…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Learning, Work Environment, Human Resources
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
Holton, Elwood F., III; Naquin, Sharon – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2005
HRD evaluation models are recommended for use by organizations to improve decisions made about HRD interventions. However, the organizational decision-making literature has been virtually ignored by evaluation researchers. In this article, we review the organizational decision-making literature and critically review HRD evaluation research through…
Descriptors: Models, Evaluation Research, Criticism, 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
Cullen, John; Turnbull, Sharon – Human Resource Development Review, 2005
An appraisal of recent reviews of the literature on management development demonstrates the existence of a number of perspectives on the topic, and this lack of a uniform approach has contributed to confusion about the subject. This article examines a series of recent and existing literature reviews on the topic of management development. It…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Management Development, Meta Analysis, Synthesis
Hatcher, Tim; Bowles, Tuere – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2006
Human resource development (HRD) as a scholarly endeavor and as a practice is often criticized in the adult education (AE) literature and by AE scholars as manipulative and oppressive and, through training and other interventions, controlling workers for strictly economic ends (Baptiste, 2001; Cunningham, 2004; Schied, 2001; Welton, 1995).…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Adult Education, Human Resources, Critical Theory