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Emerging multinational enterprises (or EMNEs) have made a huge impact on the international business stage by internationalising at a rapid rate.

Emerging multinational enterprises (or EMNEs) have made a huge impact on the international business stage by internationalising at a rapid rate.

Positive Ageing and HRD seeks to introduce readers to some major cultural issues that the current demographic changes of the workforce as the national default retirement age within the UK has moved from 60 to 67 and beyond.

This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years.

Looking at both aesthetics and human resource development, this original work investigates existing connections and relations between the two areas. Well structured and expertly written, it is a useful reference for students of human resource management, business and management, and aesthetics.

A challenge to feminist perspectives that see the glass ceiling as the exclusive domain of women's careers and work life, this text extends existing debates to include original empirical evidence from several US and UK comparative studies that look at the effect of caring for dependents upon the careers and aspirations of both men and women.

The corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. This title argues that this narrow focus, and the typical uncritical standpoint towards initiatives which are taken in the name of employees' health, is inadequate.

A critical perspective on HRD, Russ Vince's key argument is that staff responsible for learning and change in organizations have put too much effort into the development of individuals and not enough into understanding and engaging with organizational dynamics that limit abilities and opportunities to learn and change.

This book brings together the findings of twenty-four leading researchers on new forms of work and the demands these place on workers' knowledge and skill.

How can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. This title includes the location of management and organisational theory within a framework.

This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years.

A strong challenge to traditional Human Resource Development. Internationally renowned authors address HRD presenting multifaceted alternative perspectives to the current practice and theory of HRD.

Providing an overview of 17 regions and 85 countries, this book examines the role of the state in HRD, the relationship between HRD and the level of economic development in the country or region, the influence of foreign direct investment within the country or region, and firm-level HRD practices within countries or regions. Drawing on contributions from the leading academics in the field, this volume analyzes HRD from institutional and cross-cultural perspectives, making it possible, for the first time, to analyze trends across countries and regions and to draw conclusions about the value of institutional and cross-cultural perspectives in the HRD context. There is currently no book on the market that conceptualizes the discipline of global HRD in this way, making this a definitive book on HRD across the globe of particular interest to researchers and reflective practitioners.

This book provides a comprehensive, up to date, and international overview ofhuman resource development research in the area of workplace learning with contributions from academics such as Stephen Billet, Tara Fenwick and Victoria Marsick.

Feminism, Diversity and HRD aims to enhance critical understandings of feminism, diversity and HRD theorization and practice in the global political economy. This involves addressing race, class and intersectional approaches to evaluating inequalities in society/organizations.

Drawing on contributions from leading academics in the field, this volume within the Routledge Series in Human Resource Development specifically focuses on Global Human Resource Development (HRD). Specifically, the volume provides an overview of 17 regions, 85 countries and includes one emerging market grouping, CIVETS. This book examines the role of the state in HRD, the relationship between HRD and the level of economic development in the country or region, the influence of foreign direct investment within the country or region, and firm-level HRD practices within countries or regions. Global Human Resource Development analyzes HRD from institutional and cross-cultural perspectives, making it possible, for the first time, to analyze trends across countries and regions and to draw conclusions about the value of institutional and cross-cultural perspectives in the HRD context. There is currently no book on the market that conceptualizes the discipline of global HRD in this way, making this a definitive book on HRD across the globe of particular interest to researchers and reflective practitioners.

Identity as a Foundation for Human Resource Development completes a gap in the market by providing sound theoretical foundations from the latest trends in identity theorising, now a key area of organisation studies, and applies these to HRD policy and practice

New Ways of Organizing Work is concerned with examining contemporary changes to how work is organized, how those changes are implemented and how they are experienced by employees. It brings together contributions from an international team of established scholars working in the field and provides empirical evidence from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Drawing on international research expertise, this book offers an overview and analysis of bridge employment experiences in Europe and the US, and summarises the psychological, psychosocial, organizational and social benefits for employees, employers and society.

This work studies the design and conduct of research in HRD, examining the possibilities and limitations of particular methods and techniques. Emerging debates on the purpose, nature, practice and theoretical base of Human Resource Development.

Recognizing a significant need to continually update the current body of knowledge, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the state of research and practice in management development.

This collection presents an innovative and challenging approach to HRD theory and practice. A strong critically reflexive approach is adopted in order to explore the highly contested nature of HRD in the organizational context.