Place-making: The Executive’s Role in Aligning Learning with Work

Tom Short and Susan Coggan

Chapter 12 in The Future of Learning, 2011, pp 150-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In today’s global and competitive society, only a brave optimist would attempt to predict the future of workplace learning and then transfer the ascribed wisdom into a straightforward text. Moreover, the challenge of forecasting how executives might approach learning in the years ahead is hazardous, due to the vastness of the topic and rapidly expanding complexity of how people learn and develop in modern organisations. Nevertheless, in this chapter, we review the environmental context of workplace learning, armed with new findings taken from a qualitative research study in the New Zealand manufacturing sector. We reveal how executives are partnering with in-house HRD professionals to create an innovative strategy for improving performance and employee engagement. This approach focuses on developing a learning culture around an emerging concept of humanistic geography – an activity we have aptly called ‘place-making’.

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Work Engagement; Human Resource Development; Workplace Learning; Workplace Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230306356_12

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