Skills, Training and Human Resource Development: A Critical Text

Abstract

This publication takes a critical perspective in exploring a number of key issues associated with how people are ‘developed’ at work. Using many empirical studies on skills and training from recent years as a basis, the author explains how skills, or the lack of them, are viewed in the contemporary workplace. Questions considered in this text are: Will workers of the future all be knowledge workers?; If training and development are so important, why do employers invest so little in them?; and Is there such a thing as ‘bad training’? The chapters are: Human resource development; Skills at work; International comparisons: skills and employment systems; Vocational education and training in Britain; New skills for old?: the changing nature of skill; Emotions and aesthetics for work and labour: the pleasures and pains of the changing nature of work; Managing culture; Management and leadership development; Knowledge work and knowledgeable workers; Developments and developing in the new economy.

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