Journal article
Transforming HRD: A Framework for Critical HRD Practice
Advances in developing human resources, v 16(4), pp 429-444
01 Nov 2014
Abstract
The Problem.
Human resource development (HRD) has become powerfully influenced by a dominant rationality in which masculine characteristics of assertiveness, objectivity, control, and performance are privileged without question, resulting in inequitable practices and social systems such as sexism, racism, and capitalism. The humanistic roots of the field of HRD have been co-opted into serving organizations at the expense of workers and other stakeholders. The current frameworks used to understand and apply practices within the field are not sufficient to reclaim the HRD voice of organizational conscience.
The Solution.
This article defines critical human resource development (CHRD) and offers a framework for envisioning the field that restructures the "holy trinity" of HRD known as Training & Development, Career Development, and Organization Development. We make a case for why a CHRD is needed and provide an overview of key, and contested, issues of practice for HRD (and CHRD) professionals-relating, learning, changing, and organizing.
The Stakeholders.
Scholars and practitioners invested in exploring a new framework of CHRD.
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Details
- Title
- Transforming HRD: A Framework for Critical HRD Practice
- Creators
- Laura Bierema - University of GeorgiaJamie L. Callahan - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Advances in developing human resources, v 16(4), pp 429-444
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 16
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000213036000003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84911975701
- Other Identifier
- 991019330799604721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Industrial Relations & Labor