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Summary
Summary
This fascinating and controversial text makes sense of the complexities of research in the workplace and how 'working' knowledge is constructed. Featuring experts from Britain, Japan, North America and Australia, it is an outstanding contribution to the literature of Human Resource Management (HRM). It's interdisciplinary approach addresses key issues and debates such as:
* the influences of new technology, language, power, culture and gender upon the 'construction' of knowledge
* the impact of globalization
* working knowledge into the 21st century
* practice and performance implications.
It's outlook, geared towards the 21st century, makes it essential reading for researchers, teachers and students within HRM, policy-makers and all those concerned with professional development.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xii |
| 1 Legitimising Knowledge at Work | p. 1 |
| Part I Knowledge, Learning and the Practice of Work | p. 13 |
| 2 Working Knowledge | p. 15 |
| Notes | p. 30 |
| 3 Research on Work, Research at Work | p. 32 |
| References | p. 49 |
| 4 The Crisis of Scientific Research | p. 51 |
| Part II Whose Knowledge? Collaboration and Research in and Around Work | p. 75 |
| 5 Globalising the Intelligent Organisation | p. 77 |
| 6 Knowledge and Control in the Japanese Workplace | p. 100 |
| 7 Organisational Knowledge, Professional Practice and the Professional Doctorate at Work | p. 117 |
| Notes | p. 134 |
| 8 Research and Engagement with Trade Unions | p. 137 |
| 9 The Negotiated Management of Meanings | p. 158 |
| 10 Research Partnerships at Work | p. 178 |
| References | p. 198 |
| Part III Changing Practices of Research at Work | p. 201 |
| 11 The Construction of 'working Knowledge' and (mis) Interpretive Research | p. 203 |
| 12 'doing' Knowledge at Work | p. 217 |
| References | p. 230 |
| 13 An Adventure in 'postmodern' Action Research | p. 232 |
| Notes | p. 247 |
| 14 Virtual Research in Performative Times | p. 250 |
| Part IV Conclusions | p. 269 |
| 15 Inside the Knowledge Works | p. 271 |
| References | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 278 |
