Reimagining Human Resource Development

This book confronts an uncomfortable reality; the world of work is being transformed by accelerated technological, ecological and demographic change, and the Human Resource Development (HRD) field is ill-equipped to respond. Traditional approaches to work-based training and evaluation developed over at least six decades have made important contributions to organizational systems effectiveness, employee engagement, and work performance. However, these approaches and the organizational and national competitive and performative priorities that they were designed to address, are becoming increasingly irrelevant and misdirected. This book presents new ways of thinking about HRD and its contribution to individual, group, organizational and societal development. It presents alternative, creative, innovative, and provocative contributions to reimagining HRD values, norms, practices, and theorizing that are more appropriate for transfigured labour market structures, atypicality and precarity in forms of employment, and transformed forms of work carried out in new virtual and non-traditional spaces.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837112592
• ISBN13: 9781837112593
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Ethics International Press, Inc
• Length: 345 Pages