Table of Contents

PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE FIELD
Learning and Development in Organisations Today
National Skills Strategy
Reforming Vocational Education and Training

PART 2: GETTING TO GRIPS WITH THE PRACTICE
Understanding Learning and the Learners
Promoting Workplace Learning and Knowledge
Enhancing Performance Management
A 6-Stage Training Cycle for Co-creating Value
The 6-Stage Cycle in Action: A case study
Achieving Ethical Practice

PART 3 MAKING A BUSINESS CONTRIBUTION
The L&D Agenda in Different Sectoral Settings
Shaping and Managing the L&D Function
Producing and Implementing L&D Strategy
Developing L&D Partnerships
Adding Value.

PART 4 BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
Tackling Challenges of Change
Promoting Talent and Career Development
Developing Leaders and Managers
Pulling the Threads Together: Claims and Challenges

About the Author

Rosemary Harrison was formerly the CIPD's Chief Examiner, Employee Development/ Learning and Development and Director of the HRD Research Centre, University of Durham, UK. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Member of the Society of Authors. She is the author of many articles, chapters and texts on human resource management and development. She has a long record of consultancy and research in the strategic HRM and HRD fields and has written about much of that work in her various publications.