Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 53-74 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Human Resource Development Review |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
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- human resource development
- aesthetics
- epistemology
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Imagination, creativity and HRD: an aesthetic perspective. / Gibb, S.
In: Human Resource Development Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004, p. 53-74.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Imagination, creativity and HRD: an aesthetic perspective
AU - Gibb, S.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Human resource development is conceptualized here in terms of levels of action: representations, experience, relations, and communities. Functionality is taken as a hallmark of good human resource development in these. Yet reflecting on what works, and on innovations in human resource development, factors other than those associated with functionality seem to matter: imagination and creativity. To understand and explore these, an aesthetic perspective on human resource development is proposed. How the aesthetic exists and lives in human resource development is described here as a quadrant, with imagination and creativity existing in the form of imported metaphors, design thinking, development epistemology, and the aesthetics of organization. The implications of this combining of an under-standing of the functional and the aesthetic for theorizing and practicing human resource development are outlined.
AB - Human resource development is conceptualized here in terms of levels of action: representations, experience, relations, and communities. Functionality is taken as a hallmark of good human resource development in these. Yet reflecting on what works, and on innovations in human resource development, factors other than those associated with functionality seem to matter: imagination and creativity. To understand and explore these, an aesthetic perspective on human resource development is proposed. How the aesthetic exists and lives in human resource development is described here as a quadrant, with imagination and creativity existing in the form of imported metaphors, design thinking, development epistemology, and the aesthetics of organization. The implications of this combining of an under-standing of the functional and the aesthetic for theorizing and practicing human resource development are outlined.
KW - human resource development
KW - aesthetics
KW - epistemology
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534484303261841
U2 - 10.1177/1534484303261841
DO - 10.1177/1534484303261841
M3 - Article
VL - 3
SP - 53
EP - 74
JO - Human Resource Development Review
JF - Human Resource Development Review
SN - 1534-4843
IS - 1
ER -