Famous and (Infamous) Workplace and Community Training A Social History of Training and Development /

• Main Author: Kopp, David M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Personnel management.; Social history.; Business ethics.; Human Resource Management.; Social History.; Business Ethics.

This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events.  Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: On the Axiology of Training and Development: Is training value neutral?
•  2. What is Training?
• 3. Physiognomy: Training's Woeful Countenance
• 4.Rosie the Riveter
•  5. Nazi Germany:Training  Forced Labor
• 6. Self-Directed Training: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
• 7. Pregnant mothers should avoid thinking of ugly people: Parenting education and child rearing advice of the 19th and early 20th centuries
• 8. When Job Aids Attack
• 9. Mental Hygiene Guidance Films and Duck and Cover
• 10. Social Responsibility and Final Thoughts.