Informal Learning in the Workplace Unmasking human resource development

• Main Author: Garrick, John
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 1998; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Academic Standards; Adult Education; Adult Learning; Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement; BUSINESSnetBASE; Competence; Competency Based Education; Corporate Education; Corporations; Definitions; Developed Nations; Education & Training; Education Work Relationship; Educational Attitudes; Educational Needs; Educational Objectives; Educational Principles; Educational Research; Educational Theories; Employees; Employees > Training of > Great Britain; Employment Qualifications; Empowerment; Evaluation Methods; Experiential Learning; Foreign Countries; Glossaries; Human Capital; Independent Study; Informal Education; Informal learning; INFORMATIONSCIENCEnetBASE; Job Performance; Labor Force Development; Learning Organizations; Learning Processes; Lernprozess; MANAGEMENTnetBASE; Occupational training; Organizational Climate; Organizational Development; Performance Based Assessment; Personalentwicklung; Personnel Evaluation; Post-Compulsory Education; Postmodernism; Professional Development; Public Relations; Research Methodology; School Business Relationship; Theory Practice Relationship; Training of; Unions; United Kingdom; United States; Welt; Work Attitudes; Work Environment; Work Experience Programs; United States; United Kingdom; HRD Theory; practice; capital; HRD Practitioner; Workplace Learning; recognition; HRD Strategy; organisation; HRD Manager; Postmodern Doubt; Panoptic Gaze; prior; Corporate Requirement; Team Approaches; work-based; HRD Practice; hrd; human; HRD Professional; discursive; Experiential Learning Events; Discursive Practices; HRD Literature; HRD Function; Informal Workplace Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; HRD Programme; Competency Based Education; Work Based Learning Practices; Informal Learning; Human Capital Theory; HRD Role; theory; HRD Academic
• ISBN: 9780415185271; 0415185289; 0415185270; 9780415185288
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203028926

Informal learning has become an extremely important issue as post-industrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential. Managers and HRD practitioners have attempted to deploy informal learning in the design of corporate cultures, however, most discussions of the subject have tended to be uncritical expositions which do not challenge the underlying economic, philosophical and organisational rationale. Uniquely, this book goes against this tendency. It critically examines definitions of informal learning, and focuses on its application in a variety of workplace contexts. It features: theories of informal learning the unmasking of contemporary corporate rhetoric the implications for accounts of workplace learning of poststructuralist and post-modern perspectives. Incorporating case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM practitioners, and a detailed glossary of key concepts and issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students of workplace learning.