An immersive textbook that offers readers a comprehensive and detailed introduction to HRD that is theory-based, evidence-driven and practically oriented
This textbook combines theoretical rigour and pedagogical innovation to give students and teachers alike an accessible guide to human resource development and its fundamental theories and practices. The book reflects the author’s firm belief that learning offers the best competitive advantage and is thus designed to train students interested in HRD into industry-ready professionals. Human Resource Development will guide its readers on how to maximize employees’ potential using systematic and systemic approaches to drive individual and organizational performance.
Key Features:
- Analytical approach to the subject with a checklist framework in each chapter that presents the contents systematically
- Follows a unique framework based on the distinction between ‘micro-HRD’, which zooms-in on the fine details, and ‘macro-HRD’, which zooms-out to look at the bigger picture
- Includes a rich array of research insights, case studies and examples from a wide range of contexts
- Covers cutting-edge topics such as e-learning, ‘hybrid learning’, neuroscience and learning, ‘learning ecosystems’, and the ‘new learning organization’ science of learning
Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith, BSc, PhD, FCIPD, FRSA, FAcSS is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK. His main research interests are hubris (in leadership) and intuition (in organizational decision-making). His work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Academy of Management Perspectives, British Journal of Management, British Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Educational Psychology, Business Ethics Quarterly, Creativity Research Journal, Human Relations, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, Leadership, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Long Range Planning, Management Learning, Organization Studies, Organizational Dynamics, Organizational Research Methods, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, etc., and professional journals, such as People Management and Work. His research has featured in The Times as well as on BBC Radio 4 and Insight TV’s Secrets of the Brain. He is the author of several books including Learning and Development for Managers (Blackwell, 2006), Inside Intuition (Routledge, 2008), The Intuitive Mind (John Wiley & Sons, 2010, shortlisted for CMI Management Book of the Year in 2011, published in four foreign language editions –Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian) and Hubristic Leadership (SAGE, 2019, and also published in Korean). He has worked with organizations such as AcademiWales, CIPD, Forbes (Korea), Home Office, ICSA, Medact, Metropolitan Police, Surrey Police, Scottish Government, Tesco, The Mind Gym, etc. He was educated at Wade Deacon Grammar School for Boys in Widnes, has a BSc in geography from the University of Leeds and a PhD from the University of Birmingham. Before becoming an academic he worked in HRD for British Gas plc from 1987 to 1994 during which time he completed his PhD on a part-time basis (1988–1992).
