Famous and (Infamous) Workplace and Community Training [electronic resource] : A Social History of Training and Development /
Kopp, David M.author.
This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events.  Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as the methods used by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Beatles, those used by the Third Reich in training forced labor, and in the social guidance films of the 1950's, among others. This book links modern-day themes of corporate and community social responsibility and social justice to historical cases of workplace and community training; in addition, it offers a unique view of business history that students and scholars can relate to, and contributes to a more thorough and robust inquiry into critical human resource development, ethics in the workplace, and the nature of training adults, in general.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. Introduction: On the Axiology of Training and Development: Is training value neutral? --  2. What is Training? -- 3. Physiognomy: Training's Woeful Countenance -- 4.Rosie the Riveter --  5. Nazi Germany:Training  Forced Labor  -- 6. Self-Directed Training: John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- 7. Pregnant mothers should avoid thinking of ugly people: Parenting education and child rearing advice of the 19th and early 20th centuries -- 8. When Job Aids Attack -- 9. Mental Hygiene Guidance Films and Duck and Cover -- 10. Social Responsibility and Final Thoughts.
This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events.  Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as the methods used by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Beatles, those used by the Third Reich in training forced labor, and in the social guidance films of the 1950's, among others. This book links modern-day themes of corporate and community social responsibility and social justice to historical cases of workplace and community training; in addition, it offers a unique view of business history that students and scholars can relate to, and contributes to a more thorough and robust inquiry into critical human resource development, ethics in the workplace, and the nature of training adults, in general.
Personnel management.
Social history.
Business ethics.
Human Resource Management.
Social History.
Business Ethics.