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Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations

Journal Article
Garavan, T., Wang, J., Matthews-Smith, G., Nagarathnam, B., & Lai, Y. (2018)
Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations. Human Resource Development International, 21(4), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1429171
National human resource development (NHRD) is now an important area of investigation within human resource development with significant growth in publications over 49 years. S...

Developing high performance working through case study evidence

Journal Article
Grant, K., & Maxwell, G. A. (2018)
Developing high performance working through case study evidence. Development and Learning in Organizations, 32(2), 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo-03-2017-0028
Purpose The article theoretically proffers and empirically evidences five inter-related high performance working (HPW) groupings of value to practitioners interested in develo...

Confusion and collectivism in the ICT sector: Is FLOSS the answer?

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Marks, A., Chillas, S., Galloway, L., & Maclean, G. (2020)
Confusion and collectivism in the ICT sector: Is FLOSS the answer?. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 41(1), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x17695441
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) workers rarely join trade unions. This is usually explained by the individualised nature of work. We examine broader forms of c...

Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective

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O'Neil, J. J. Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978274
Critical scholars have written about the ‘squeezed middle’ and the new labour process of front line and middle managers generally, but there is a gap in the literature relatin...

Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A “Critical” Exploration of Context, Informality, and Empirical Realities: Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A ‘Critical’ Exploration of Context, Informality and Empirical Realities

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Nolan, C. T., & Garavan, T. N. (2016)
Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A “Critical” Exploration of Context, Informality, and Empirical Realities: Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A ‘Critical’ Exploration of Context, Informality and Empirical Realities. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 27(3), 407-442. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21261
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the backbone of the global economy and therefore are an integral part of the HRD research agenda. The HRD literature has pr...

The Use of Imagery in the Campaign Speeches of Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain during the 2008 US Presidential Election.

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McGuire, D., Garavan, T. N., Cunningham, J., & Duffy, G. (2016)
The Use of Imagery in the Campaign Speeches of Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain during the 2008 US Presidential Election. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 37(4), 430-449. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-07-2014-0136
Purpose – The use of imagery in leadership speeches is becoming increasingly important in shaping the beliefs and actions of followers. The purpose of this paper is to investi...

Strategic human resource development: towards a conceptual framework to understand its contribution to dynamic capabilities

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Garavan, T., Shanahan, V., Carbery, R., & Watson, S. (2016)
Strategic human resource development: towards a conceptual framework to understand its contribution to dynamic capabilities. Human Resource Development International, 19(4), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2016.1169765
Dynamic capabilities have assumed major importance in the strategy and human resource management literatures. However, discussion of their contribution to strategic human reso...

Social Capital Effects on the Career and Development Outcomes of HR Professionals

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Gubbins, C., & Garavan, T. (2015)
Social Capital Effects on the Career and Development Outcomes of HR Professionals. Human Resource Management, 55(2), 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21727
HR professionals’ roles require them to be responsive to both employee needs and top management strategies. However, the need to respond to the often competing employee and st...

Innovation and human resource development (HRD)

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Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014)
Innovation and human resource development (HRD). European Journal of Training and Development, 38(1/2), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2013-0128
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of human resource development (HRD) and innovation which has been under-researched despite the widesp...