Welcome to the companion website for Human Resource Development: From Theory into Practice by Eugene Sadler-Smith. Please note that all the materials on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the subject covered.
This site offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience.
SAGE companion site for Instructors supports teaching by making it easy to integrate quality content and create a rich learning environment for students.
About the Book
An immersive textbook that offers readers a comprehensive and detailed introduction to HRD that is theory-based, evidence-driven and practically oriented
This textbook combines theoretical rigour and pedagogical innovation to give students and teachers alike an accessible guide to human resource development and its fundamental theories and practices. The book reflects the author’s firm belief that learning offers the best competitive advantage and is thus designed to train students interested in HRD into industry-ready professionals. Human Resource Development will guide its readers on how to maximize employees’ potential using systematic and systemic approaches to drive individual and organizational performance.
Key Features:
- Analytical approach to the subject with a checklist framework in each chapter that presents the contents systematically
- Follows a unique framework based on the distinction between ‘micro-HRD’, which zooms-in on the fine details, and ‘macro-HRD’, which zooms-out to look at the bigger picture
- Includes a rich array of research insights, case studies and examples from a wide range of contexts
- Covers cutting-edge topics such as e-learning, ‘hybrid learning’, neuroscience and learning, ‘learning ecosystems’, and the ‘new learning organization’ science of learning
For instructors
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