Human Resource Development (HRD) involves the design, delivery and evaluation of learning and/or training interventions within organisations to improve the work performance of individuals and groups. This edited collection will demonstrate the potential of identity theorising for problematizing and reconceptualising HRD activities. Identity will thus be established as a foundation for enhancing HRD policy and practice. While identity has emerged as a key focus for theoretical debate and for empirical research within management and organisational studies, the potential of identity as a new paradigm for understanding learning and for examining HRD more broadly is still emergent. That identity has such potential can be seen in the increasing recognition that training and development for many contemporary occupations represents nothing less than a project of the self.Identity as a Foundation for Human Resource Development will complete a gap in the market providing sound, single source, theoretical foundations from the latest trends in identity theorising, now a key area of organisation studies, and apply these to HRD policy and practice. The emphasis throughout will be on informing HRD policy and practice, research and education the book includes a chapter on resources and techniques for HRD educators. In short, the book will put identity to work for HRD scholars.The intended audiences are Human Resource Development scholars, academics, students and professionals, this exciting new volume will provide a thoughtful theoretical analysis and operational practise for modern HRD.
1. Introduction: HRD In search of identity
Russell Warhurst, Kate Black and Sandra Corlett
PART 1 : Theoretical Lenses
2. Identity as a Foundation for Human Resource Development (HRD)
Peter McInnes, Sandra Corlett, Christine Coupland, Jerry Hallier and Juliette
Summers
3. Subjectivity and Human Resource Development: A Quest for
Intersubjectivity
Stephen Billett
4. Examining Career Pathing through the Lens of Identity Theories
Kristin M. Schnatter, Jason J. Dahling and Samantha L. Chau
5. Optimal Distinctiveness and Human Resource Development
Amy E. Randel, Christopher D. Zatzick and Jone L. Pearce
PART 2: Critical Theoretical Lenses
6. Power and Self-identity: Positive Psychology Applied to Human Resource
Development
Matthew McDonald, David Bubna-Litic, Arthur Morgan, Susan Mate and Lan Thi
Nguyen
7. Queer Theory Meets HRD Research and Practice
Nick Rumens
PART 3: Methodologies for Working with Identity
8. Methods for researching identity in HRD
Kate Black and Russell Warhurst
9. Repertory Grid Technique as a Useful Tool for Assessing Identity and
Identity Change in HRD
Rosalía Cascón-Pereira
PART 4: Empirical Applications of Identity in HRD Research
10. Becoming a software professional: Tensions in transitions
Jacob Vakkayil
11. Exploration of Identity Conflict During Post-merger Integration
Catherine Olusanmi
12. Coaching as a Liminal Space: Exploring Use of Theatre in Management
Training and Development
Sara Zaeemdar
13. Rights and Wrongs of Manager Identity: Implications for Manager
Education
Alison Rostron
14. The Older I Get, the Better I Used to Be: The Development of Identity
Among Retired People
David Sims
PART 5: Empirical Studies of Professional Identities
15. "I do this just to keep that basic skill" the Role of Identity
Continuities for Careers
Simone R. Haasler
16. Professional Identity, a Neglected Core Concept of Professional
Development
Tom P. A. Van Oeffelt, Manon C. P. Ruijters, Anouk A. J. C. Van Hees and P.
Robert-Jan Simons
17. Conclusion: Identity as a Foundation of HRD
Russell Warhurst, Kate Black and Sandra Corlett
Dr. Kate Black is an Associate Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
Dr. Russell Warhurst is an Associate Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
Dr. Sandra Corlett is a Principal Lecturer at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.
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