Inaugural lecture Rob Poell

Last friday I joined the inaugural lecture, given by Rob Poell (Tilburg University). His lecture was titled 'Developing human resource development. Towards an employee perspective'. In this lecture he defines HRD, states that personal development is, in itself, for many people a goal in their work, he compares HRD with HRM and presents a research in which he shows how HRM is represented in HRD-handbooks and journals and the other way round. HRD appears to show up in HRM-handbooks merely as a seperate part, coming from a traditional training-oriented view on HRD. Nice is that Poell did some research work especially for this inaugural lecture. The first part, on the definition of HRD, is the best part I think, because there Poell really shows his personal view on learning and development of employees.

A copy of this speech (in Dutch!) can be ordered via info@performa.nl.

Poel, R. (2006). Personeelsontwikkeling in ontwikkeling. Naar een werknemersperspectief op Human Resource Development. Inaugurele rede, Universiteit van Tilburg.