Training in the Workplace: Critical Perspectives on Learning at Work (Management, work & organizations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333616715 ISBN 13: 9780333616710

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Aimed at MBA and post-experience students as well as advanced undergraduates, this book targets their needs and interests by providing a practical, experience-led approach whilst still maintaining a critical focus. - The well-known contributors defeat the criticism that training is a 'dry' subject by focusing on the relevance of training to the workplace and the management of change.

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About the Author

HELEN RAINBIRD is Professor of Industrial Relations at University College Northampton and an Associate Fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. She has researched and written on the interface between industrial relations and vocational training and has a particular interest in trade unions and workplace learning. Her research interests include the comparative European Dimension on training policy and institutions; the relationship between access to learning and inequality at work; and the concept of apprenticeship as a model of learning. She has a close working relationship with the public sector union, UNISON.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333616715
• ISBN 13: 9780333616710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Rainbird Helen