Informal learning in the workplace : unmasking human resource development / John Garrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrick, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Training of.

Employees.

Occupational training.

Experiential learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 feature

Contents:

Cover; Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking human resource development; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Learning in the workplace; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 What is informal learning in the workplace?; 2 Theorising informal learning; 3 Work as a learning environment: Unmasking the language of HRD; 4 The hidden curriculum of learning at work; 5 Professional identity and self-regulation at work; 6 The performativity principle in informal learning; 7 Retheorising informal workplace learning; 8 Doubts about postmodern doubt: Postscript; Appendix: The research methods; Glossary

BibliographyIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-198) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66720-5

1-280-33252-2

0-203-02892-9

0-203-27297-8

1-134-66721-3

9780203028926

OCLC:

70765404