Handbook of research methods on human resource development
By: edited by Mark N.K. Saunders, Paul Tosey
Series: Handbooks of research methods in management; Handbooks of research methods in management
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781781009239; 9781781009246
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Methodology; Study and teaching; Human capital; Personnel management; Handbooks, manuals; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The variety of methods for researching HRD / Mark N.K. Saunders and Paul Tosey; title: Part I. Conceptual issues. Paradigms, philosophical prisms and pragmatism in HRD research / Bob Hamlin; title: HRD research and design science / Eugene Sadler-Smith; title: Scholarly practice in HRD research / Jeff Gold, Tim Spackman, Diane Marks, Nick Beech, Julia Calver, Adrian Ogun and Helen Whitrod-Brown; title: Using systematic review methodology to examine the extant literature / Cèline Rojon and Almuth McDowall; title: part II. Qualitative research. Ethnographic research in HRD - managing a betrayal? / Dawn Langley; title: In (re)search of the self: autoethnography in HRD research / Sally Sambrook; title: Opening the visual methods toolbox / Kate Black and Russell Warhurst; title: The use of photo elicitation interviewing in qualitative HRD research / Russell Warhurst and Kate Black; title: Action research for HRD research / Rosalie Holian and David Coghlan; title: Critical action learning research: opportunities and challenges for HRD research and practice / Kiran Trehan and Clare Rigg; title: Facilitating learning using the service template extended process (STEP) within a process consultation framework / Mark N.K. Saunders, Paul Tosey, Claire Jones, Christine S. Williams; title: Emergent discourses of learning and community formation: exploring social media for professional learning / Peter Evans; title: And what kind of question is that? Thinking about the function of questions in qualitative Interviewing / Paul Tosey; title: part III. Using questionnaire surveys to gather data for within organisation HRD research / Cinla Akinci and Mark N.K. Saunders; title: Now you see them, now you don't: using online surveys in HRD longitudinal research  / Jim Stewart and Victoria Harte; title: Maximising telephone survey participation in international HRD research / Maura Sheehan, Mark N.K. Saunders and Catherine L. Wang; title: Using critical incidents and vignette technique in HRD research to investigate learning activities and behaviour at work / Regina H. Mulder; title: Accounting for complexity: structural equation modelling (SEM) in HRD research / Christoph König, Gerhard Messmann, Regina H. Mulder and Sven De Maeyer; title: Using systematic content analysis to establish theory-practice links in HRD literature / Rob F. Poell; title: part IV. Methodologial challenges. The competing interests of paradigm and praxis in critical HRD research: incorporating quantitative methods to enact critical practice / Jamie L. Callahan and Gary Connor; title: Mixed methods in HRD research: theory and practice from a study of Hong Kong SMES / Steven Tam and David E. Gray; title: Key issues for gender research in HRD: a multi-stakeholder framework for analysing gendered media constructions of women's leaders / Sharon Mavin and Jannine Williams; title: Leadership development as a method of enquiry: insights from a post-structuralist perspective / Carole Elliott and Valerie Stead; title: Navigating extra sensitive research topics utilizing content analysis and computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) / Thomas Garavan and Clíodhna MacKenzie; title: Index.