Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development

Carole Elliott, Sharon Turnbull

'The book should prove interesting to organisation and management scholars ... [and] is a welcome addition to the field of Human Resource Development, where there has been a notable absence of critical studies.' - Julia Connell, Labour and Industry'Succinct, accessible and well written, and manage[s] to tread a line between "preaching to the converted" and being accessible to those unfamiliar with critical management approaches' - Claire Valentin, Human Resource Development International

• 1. Critical Thinking in HRD: An Introduction Part One: Debates on Practice 2. Beware the Unbottled Genie: Unspoken Aspects of Critical Self-Reflection 3. Ideas for Critical Practicioners 4. Becoming Critical: Can Critical Management Learning Develop Critical Managers? 5. Management Education: A Tool for Mismanagement? 6. A Critical Review of of Researching Human Resource Development: The Case of a Pan-European Project 7. HRD Beyond What HRD Practicioners Do: A Framework for Furthering Multiple Learning Processes in Work Organisations 8. Place: A (Re)source for Learning 9. Critiquing Codes of Ethics Part Two: Theoretical Debates 10. Deconstructing the Human in Human Resource Development 11. Sense or Sensibility? A Reflection on Virtue and 'Emotional' HRD Interventions 12. The Self at Work: Theories of Persons, Meaning of Work and their Implications for HRD 13. "To Develop a Firm Persuation": Workplace Learning and the Problem of Meaning 14. Good Order: On the Administration of Goodness 15. Pedagogies of HRD: The Socio-Political Implications