Introduction to Human Resource Management
Fourth Edition
SAGE Journal Articles
Select SAGE journal articles are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.
- This article provides an interesting and comprehensive discussion of the processes of learning through work and interactions and of the concept of mimesis through which learning takes place through a process of observation, imitation and action. It concludes with some implications of mimesis for HRD in practice.
Billett, S. (2014) Mimesis: Learning through everyday activities and interactions at work, Human Resource Development Review, 13 (4): 462–82.
- This short editorial places HRD in its broad historical context and outlines its emergence in the 1970s. The article also discusses the future of HRD.
Van der Veen, R. (2006) Human resource development: Irreversible trend or temporary fad?, Human Resource Development Review, 5 (1): 3–7.
- This article presents research findings that, despite a deregulated training market in the UK, a range of data sources shows that the impact of the recent recession on training participation and budgets was minimal. The authors conclude that employers in the UK do not have a completely free hand in making decisions about investment in training and that a combination of market intervention and business requirements obliged most of them to sustain training despite difficult conditions.
Felstead, A., Green, F. and Jewson, N. (2012) An analysis of the impact of the 2008–9 recession on the provision of training in the UK, Work, Employment & Society, 26 (6): 968–86.
- This article reviews the literature on strategic human resource development and proposes a model of SHRD focusing on the interactions between internal and external organisational context, HRD processes, stakeholder satisfaction and the characteristics of HRD professionals.
Garavan, T. N. (2007) A strategic perspective on human resource development, Advances in Developing Human Resources, 9 (1): 11–30.
- This article introduces a special edition of the journal and examines the role of HRD in addressing important societal issues. It discusses and provides a useful framework by which to understand how HRD at different levels of the organisation can actively contribute to a firm’s CSR agenda, whilst also ensuring ongoing business success.
Garavan, T. N. and McGuire, D. (2010) Human resource development and society: Human resource development’s role in embedding corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and ethics in organizations, Advances in Developing Human Resources, 12 (5): 487–507.
- This article discusses the notion of ‘just-in-time learning’ (‘anywhere, anytime, anyhow learning that is just enough, just for me and just in time’) and how the growing demand for such learning presents a significant challenge for HRD practitioners and the field of HRD.
Brandenburg, D. C. and Ellinger, A. D. (2010) The future: Just-in-time learning expectations and potential implications for human resource development, Advances in Developing Human Resources, 5: 308–20.