Critical thinking in human resource development

Table of Contents 1. Critical Thinking in HRD: An introduction Carole Elliott and Sharon Turnbull Part One: Debates on Practice 2. Beware the Unbottled Genie: Unspoken aspects of critical self-reflection Kiran Trehan and Clare Rigg 3. Ideas for Critical Practicioners Russ Vince 4. Becoming Critical: Can critical management learning develop critical managers? Clare Rigg 5. Management Education: A tool for mismanagement? Finian Buckley and Kathy Monks 6. A Critical Review of of Researching Human Resource Development: The case of a pan-European project Sally Sambrook and Jim Stewart 7. HRD Beyond What HRD Practicioners Do: A framework for furthering multiple learning processes in work organisations Rob Poell 8. Place: A (re)source for learning Ginny Hardy and Colin Newsham 9. Critiquing Codes of Ethics Monica Lee Part Two: Theoretical Debates 10. Deconstructing the Human in Human Resource Development Christina Hughes 11. Sense or Sensibility? A reflection on virtue and 'emotional' HRD interventions Linda Perriton 12. The Self at Work: Theories of persons, meaning of work and their implications for HRD Peter Kuchinke 13. "To Develop a Firm Persuation": Workplace learning and the problem of meaning John Dirkx 14. Good Order: On the administration of goodness Heather Hopfl 15. Pedagogies of HRD: The socio-political implications Sharon Turnbull and Carole Elliott

This book provides a reflexive critique of the assumptions of orthodox HRD research and practice and questions the conception of humans as resources, as well as the conventional performative focus of HRD. Examining the broader social, political and economic contexts, the book offers alternative perspectives for considering both the needs of individuals and the sustainable development of organizations in post-industrial economies.