 Subjects -> OCCUPATIONS AND CAREERS (Total: 33 journals)
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- Virtual HRD’s Role in Crisis and the Post Covid-19 Professional
Lifeworld: Accelerating Skills for Digital Transformation- Authors: Elisabeth E. Bennett, Rochell R. McWhorter
Pages: 5 - 25
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 5-25, February 2021.
The Problem.The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented crisis to a world already undergoing digital transformation. Millions of people began working virtually to prevent the spread of disease and to maintain business continuity, suddenly participating in virtual human resource development (VHRD) and alternative work strategies that helped organizations adapt to current challenges and prepare for future disruption. The purpose of this article is to analyze VHRD’s role in the crisis and the transition to a new era marked by further disruption and change.The Recommendation.This article provides a primer for understanding the environmental perspective of VHRD, analyzes reskilling and upskilling trends during the pandemic and for early stages of the fourth industrial revolution, and addresses learning, adaptation, cultural, workplace, and economic implications. We argue that many of the changes to the workplace were already underway, but the pandemic has accelerated transformation. For this reason, organizations must anticipate more digital transformation, strategize VHRD, and leverage learning assets to prepare for the future.The Stakeholders.This article is of interest to those helping their organizations to not only recover from crisis, but to thrive in a new era of work that is being fundamentally transformed by technology. The audience includes organizational leaders, HRD professionals, workers, scholars, as well as school personnel seeking to prepare learners for future career conditions.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2021-01-08T12:08:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320973288
Issue No: Vol. 23, No. 1 (2021)
- Corrigendum
- Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-01-10T12:06:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320901919
- A New Normal: The Changed Landscape of Human Resource Development in the
Wake of COVID-19- Authors: Marilyn Y. Byrd
First page: 3
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-20T11:56:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320973957
- Reshaping HRD in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethics of Care
Approach- Authors: David McGuire, Marie-Line Germain, Kae Reynolds
First page: 26
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
The ProblemThe COVID-19 pandemic has shone a stark light on workplace inequities and injustices. Aside from disrupting daily routines and ways of working, the pandemic has unmasked significant and troubling differences in the treatment and status of productive and reproductive labor. As we recover from the pandemic, how can workplaces properly recognize and value the contribution of reproductive labor'The RecommendationWe focus on ethics of care as a foundational aspect of learning and human development. Care is proximal and contextual and expressions of care require managers and HRD professionals to engage with and address employees’ needs in a way that recognizes the complexity of individual situations. This may lead to the transformation of work and workplaces and bring employees into a more participatory, inclusive and democratic relationship with employers. We offer four suggestions for how HRD practitioners can practically embed an ethics of care approach within organizations.The StakeholdersThis article is relevant to human resource development (HRD) scholars and practitioners who are interested in building sustainable, caring and healthy workplaces in a post-pandemic world.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-20T11:56:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320973426
- Developing Competencies for Emotional, Instrumental, and Informational
Student Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Human Relations/Human
Resource Development Approach- Authors: Brenda Lloyd-Jones
First page: 41
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
The ProblemThe COVID-19 pandemic required many college and university faculty members to transition quickly from traditional classroom instruction to virtual, online learning. Aside from mastering technical skills needed to maintain an uninterrupted learning environment, faculty were challenged with mastering social-emotional competencies for maintaining continuity in relationships (e.g. student/peer, student/instructor). This dilemma highlights transdisciplinary relationships between the fields of human relations (HRL) and human resource development (HRD).The RecommendationIn this article, a framework is introduced and recommended for understanding the experiences of a university faculty member who, in addition to mastering technical competencies (e.g., coaching, care, collaboration), was also challenged with developing social-emotional support behaviors (e.g., emotional, instrumental, informational) while maintaining continuity in established relationships as a transdisciplinary HRL/HRD response to the pandemic.The StakeholdersThis article offers faculty, higher education administrators, human relations professionals, and human resource development scholars/practitioners a model for ways in which to work professionally within the “new normal.”
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-30T01:23:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320973287
- Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: Critically Reflective Research for a
New HRD Landscape- Authors: Oliver S. Crocco, Robin S. Grenier
First page: 55
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
The ProblemThe pandemic and subsequent changes to norms and practices in the workplace mean that for many, existing meaning-making structures are challenged and the limits of existing ways of knowing are revealed. The problem for HRD scholars and practitioners is that dominant approaches to research are largely insufficient for understanding individuals’ meaning making in response to the pandemic.The RecommendationsTwo critically reflexive method/ologies are presented and overlaid with Constructive-Developmental Theory (CDT) to offer not only a means of capturing data about individuals’ experiences during/post-pandemic but for interpreting the data with an understanding of the mental complexities associated with capturing an emic perspective.The StakeholdersStakeholders include HRD scholars and practitioners who conduct research in organizations.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-21T08:46:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320973425
- The Changing Learning Technological Landscape for Trainers in the Wake of
COVID-19- Authors: Claretha Hughes
First page: 66
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
The ProblemDue to the unexpected and rapid spread of COVID-19 throughout the world, training professionals are faced with three distinct problems: (1) lack of technological infrastructure; (2) the conflict between essential and non-essential workers; and (3) the ability to rapidly train workers to use new technology while working from home. Trainers are seeking to help workers and organizations use learning technologies to navigate the continuously changing workplace landscape in the midst of and after the COVID-19 pandemic.RecommendationForced expansion of learning technologies by trainers during COVID-19 provides an opportunity to expand worker development. Not only will trainers expand their knowledge of the use of technology, they will also become better proficient at selecting appropriate technology for employee development. Trainers should become better advocates for the use of technology by demonstrating their own expertise in using learning technologies; use their communication skills to teach workers about context and how to transition current skills into new jobs; and help workplace leaders better understand how technology and people can co-exist in the workplace.StakeholdersThe stakeholders who can benefit from this article are trainers, workplace leaders, workers who are forced to work from home, essential workers who must go to work each day, displaced workers, furloughed workers, and laid off workers.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-21T05:07:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320972108
- Engaging Communities in Challenging Times: Lessons Learned from the Master
Gardener Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic- Authors: Emmanuel Osafo
First page: 75
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
The ProblemThe centrality of community engagement to the success of higher education is incontestable. When the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic emerged in early 2020, organizations and institutions, including universities had to suspend most community engagement activities, which is predominantly done in-person, across states in order to reduce the spread of the virus. This was a call for strategic rethinking to remain mission focused in adverse situations.The RecommendationI recommend the modified Framework for University Community Partnership (UCP) and scenario planning, a widely utilized support scheme for strategic decision making to human resource development (HRD) practitioners as pivotal for community engagement. This article seeks to help organizations adjust effectively to the “new normal.”The StakeholdersThis article seeks to provide the impetus for higher education institutions to effectively develop community engagement processes in the post-COVID-19 era. Furthermore, the article is written to benefit HRD professionals, nonprofit organizations, volunteers, and other community engagement programs.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-30T01:22:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320972142
- Informal and Incidental Learning in the time of COVID-19
- Authors: Karen E. Watkins, Victoria J. Marsick
First page: 88
Abstract: Advances in Developing Human Resources, Ahead of Print.
The ProblemCOVID-19 has brought challenges to all sectors of society, from leadership at the top to service at the front lines. Learning (and unlearning) by its very nature will play an outsize role in our reinvention and renewal. Much of that learning will be informal and incidental learning. How can complexity science help us think about informal and incidental learning in a pandemic and how might we develop our capacity to productively learn given these turbulent circumstances'The SolutionWorkplace educators are encouraged to take a complexity perspective on their work post-COVID-19 and to enlarge their repertoire of responses to learning needs to include informal and incidental learning. A critical role for these individuals will be to help workers increase their skill in being proactive, critically reflective, creative, and playful as they learn informally. We encourage use of design thinking—coupled with knowledge-intensive tools, data visualization modeling, imagination, and abductive reasoning—to reframe how we learn in times of complexity in the time of COVID-19.The StakeholdersAll of us have to learn our way through during this great reset. Every sector, every workplace, will be affected by the changes wrought by a pandemic and an economy in jeopardy. Thus all who learn and particularly those of us who help shape and guide workplace learning have a stake in understanding complexity and how to enhance informal and incidental learning as a strategically important response to these times.
Citation: Advances in Developing Human Resources
PubDate: 2020-11-25T05:37:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/1523422320973656
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