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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783883903321
• Autore: Garrick John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-66720-5; 1-280-33252-2; 0-203-02892-9; 0-203-27297-8; 1-134-66721-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.25/92
• Soggetti: Employees - Training of; Occupational training; Experiential learning
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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