Exploring the nature and role of theory in the human resource development practice of employees in the financial services industry / Akinyemi Dehumo Togonu Bickersteth.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Togonu Bickersteth, Akinyemi Dehumo, author.

Contributor:

Nakkula, Michael J., degree supervisor.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Chief Learning Officer, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business administration.

Finance.

Chief learning officer--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Chief learning officer.

Local Subjects:

Business administration.

Finance.

Chief learning officer--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Chief learning officer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 83-08A.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this qualitative study situated within the constructivism and socio-constructivism domain, I try to develop substantive theory using interpretivist methods to analyze personal narratives from my experiences and topical narratives collected through interviews of purposefully selected participants. This study was born from my experiences as a professional with about 20 years' experience in HRD related roles in Singapore and the last 12 years in the financial services industry. I methodologically drew on those experiences through an iterative inductive and deductive process throughout the study. What I sought to understand was the nature of theory in practice as analyzed from practitioner experiences. By the end of the study, I came to understand three things. The first was that the desired results of the practitioner affect the nature of theory in their practice. Here, the theorizing that practitioners engaged in was affected by intentionality, the nature of the practitioner's desired results while performing activities in the domain of practice. Desired results refer to problems to be solved using the solutions from the domain of practice. The second was that theorizing could occur in three dimensions: the self, the activity, and the domain of practice, with theorizing in the domain being the primary area of focus for the study. The idea that the practitioner's desired results are about offering solutions from the domain of practice makes the domain of practice the primary area of theorizing. The third was that practitioners could assume any of four roles while performing their activities, and each of these roles indicates the nature of theorization in which they are likely to engage. The roles being consumer, mechanic, engineer, and scientist. As the world of work continues to evolve and change, and as these changes continue to emphasize the need for practitioners to both apply as well as actively construct theory at the point of action, increasing our understanding of when this happens and how it happens in practice will help to inform how we develop practitioners as professionals in applied fields in general and specifically in Human Resource Development (HRD).

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-08, Section: A.

Advisors: Nakkula, Michael J.; Committee members: Watts, Caroline L.; Thomas, Ariane M.

Department: Chief Learning Officer.

Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798780624660

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