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• 40 min
  1. Managing strategy and HRM

  • Prof. John Delery
• 71 min
  2. Managing HR for organizational performance

  • Prof. Paul Sparrow
• 52 min
  3. Managing people in networked organisations

  • Prof. Damian Grimshaw
• 41 min
  4. Trust in organisational relationships

  • Dr. Graham Dietz
• 28 min
  5. Global talent management

  • Dr. Elaine Farndale
• 63 min
  6. Employee voice and engagement

  • Dr. Tony Dundon
• 41 min
  7. Learning

  • Prof. Irena Grugulis
• 54 min
  8. Work and psychological well-being

  • Prof. Kevin Daniels
• 28 min
  9. Pay and reward

  • Mr. Charles Cotton
• 47 min
  10. Diversity management

  • Prof. Gill Kirton
• 37 min
  11. Downsizing: costs, consequences, and best practices

  • Prof. Wayne F. Cascio
• 56 min
  12. Talent management

  • Dr. David Collings
• 42 min
  13. Evidence-based management: helping managers make better decisions

  • Prof. Denise M. Rousseau

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Learning
3. A modern myth about work
4. Organisational reasons
5. Individual reasons
6. Market based vs. regulated economy
7. High skills eco-systems: Silicon Valley
8. Apprenticeship : Germany
9. Skill development in practice
10. What is skill?
11. Skill in the job
12. What is happening to jobs?
13. What does this mean?
14. References

Topics Covered

• Myths about work
• Positive reasons to train and learn, organisational and individual
• Success stories
• Problems and nature of skill
• Standardisation, routines and limits to discretion
• What is happening to jobs?
• Implications for the future

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Series:

• Human Resource Management

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Bite-size Case Studies:

• Silicon Valley: learning in a high-skill eco-system
• Learning environments: apprenticeships in Germany

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on July 7, 2011