Human Resource Development in Small Organisations: Research and Practice

by Stewart; Jim

• ISBN13: 9780415299602
• ISBN10: 0415299608
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Small organizations are of growing influence as a source of employment opportunities, but HRD in small organizations is a neglected field of study. This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary review of research into the practice of HRD in small organizations. The book is divided into three sections. The focus of part one is on the context of HRD research in small organizations the contextual characteristics of small organizations and the implications of these for the design and conduct of research into HRD practices. Chapters in part two report the results of research that informs informs understanding of approaches to HRD, including recent approaches such as those based on developments in information and communication technology. The third part is concerned with HRD methods as they are applied and practiced and looks at constructs such as mentoring and coaching. All of the chapters are based on recent or current research. However, there is diversity in the methodological assumptions informingthe design of that research. The contributions therefore reflect the eclectic nature of HRD research and writing. This book will be of essential interest to students, academics and policy advisors within the fields of HRD and HRM.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xv
1 Researching and practising HRD in small organisations	1	(4)
JIM STEWART AND GRAHAM BEAVER
PART I The context of BRD in small organisations	5	(98)
2 Why HRD in small organisations may have become a neglected field of study	8	(18)
ROSEMARY HILL
3 Neither market failure nor customer ignorance: the organisational limitations of employee training and development	26	(22)
SCOTT TAYLOR, SUE SHAW AND RICHARD THORPE
4 Now you see it now you don't: comparing traditional and discourse readings of HRD in small organisations	48	(26)
CLARE RIGG AND KIRAN TREHAN
5 The big business of strategic human resource management in small business	74	(32)
GRAHAM BEAVER AND KATE HUTCHINGS
PART II Approaches to HRD in small organisations	103	(112)
6 Employee-led development in SMEs: positioning practice	106	(18)
VIKKI SMITH, DENISE THURSFIELD, JOHN HAMBLETT AND RICK HOLDEN
7 The practice of HRD in smaller firms	124	(25)
EUGENE SADLER-SMITH AND JONATHAN LEAN
8 HRD and knowledge migration in SME-academic partnerships: the technology translator project	149	(19)
PAUL ILES AND MAURICE YOLLES
9 Knowledge migration In an academic-SME partnership: how useful is the Teaching Company Scheme as a vehicle for HRD In SMEs?	168	(17)
ELAINE EADES AND PAUL ILES
10 E-learning and small organisations	185	(30)
SALLY SAMBROOK
PART III Applying HRD methods in small organisations	215	(97)
11 The management development needs of owner-managers in manufacturing SMEs: mapping the skills and techniques	218	(26)
ALISON WILSON AND GILL HUMAN
12 The value of HRD in small owner-managed organisations: the role of external coaching	244	(21)
DAVID DEVINS AND JEFF GOLD
13 Mentoring for export success	265	(20)
DAVID MEGGINSON AND PAUL STOKES
14 Management development in micro and small firms in Ireland: linking management development practices to firm size, strategic type, HRM orientation and owner-manager espoused values	285	(27)
THOMAS N. CARAVAN, ALMA McCARTHY, JULIET McMAHON AND CLAIRE GUBBINS
Index	312