Critical Human Resource Development: Beyond Orthodoxy Book

About the contributors     vii
Acknowledgements     x
Introduction. A critical take on a critical turn in HRD   Clare Rigg   Jim Stewart   Kiran Trehan     1
A Critical Turn in Human Resource Development     17
Introduction to Part One     19
Exploring the notion of 'time' and 'critical' HRD   Sally Sambrook     23
The fallacy of ethics and HRD: how ethics limits the creation of a 'deep' profession   Tim Hatcher     43
The ethics of HRD   Jim Stewart     59
Activities for Part One     79
In the Workplace     81
Introduction to Part Two     83
Feminism, gender and HRD   Beverly Dawn Metcalfe   Christopher J. Rees     87
The mutation of HRD and strategic change: a critical perspective   Helen Francis     107
Shifting boundaries in work and learning: HRD and the case of corporate education   Jean Kellie     129
Activities for Part Two     145
Constraints in the Classroom     147
Introduction to Part Three     149
Putting the 'C' in HRD   Lisa Anderson   Richard Thorpe     153
How can I teach criticalmanagement in this place? A critical pedagogy for HRD: possibilities, contradictions and compromises   Claire Valentin     169
Chuck out the chintz? 'Stripped floor' writing and the catalogue of convention: alternative perspectives on management inquiry   Brendon Harvey     181
Activities for Part Three     197
Critique of Critical Orthodoxies     199
Introduction to Part Four     201
Acknowledging conflict in 'communities of practice': a figurational perspective on learning and innovating in the workplace   Valerie Owen-Pugh     205
The learning turn in education and training: liberatory paradigm or oppressive ideology?   Leonard Holmes     221
Going beyond a critical turn: hypocrisies and contradictions   Kiran Trehan   Clare Rigg   Jim Stewart     239
Activities for Part Four     251
References and further reading     253
Index     289