10th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe
Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
The University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD), the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and Newcastle Business School, are pleased to announce that the 10th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe will be held at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The venue will be Newcastle Business School's new state of the art campus, 10th - 12th June 2009. The theme of the 10th Conference is HRD: Complexity and Imperfection in Practice.
WELCOME TO THE CONFERENCE
The UFHRD, AHRD and Newcastle Business School warmly invite academics and professionals working in any specialist field of HRD to contribute to the conference by papers, workshops and poster sessions.
Significant change resulting from growing globalisation, technological innovation, increasing competition and the mobility of labour has prompted organisations to realign their people processes and systems in order to adapt to the changing environment and market volatility.
The importance of human capital as a means to succeed in this changing world takes on a significantly important role as a way of transforming both organisations and national economies. As a result, organisations are increasingly accepting of the importance of human resource development as a key strategic component of business strategy. Yet this poses challenges for the role of HRD practitioners. The need, for example, to build organisational capacity, to facilitate organisational change and to build a knowledge economy, requires HRD professionals to promote new and different HRD realities that ensure its integration and which strengthen its future.
Whilst the conference, as usual, aims to promulgate the latest research findings, best practices and theoretical developments in HRD, it will also raise the challenge of and enable meaningful debate to take place between HRD theory and HRD practice. The conference title of HRD: Complexity and Imperfection encompasses the aim of providing a vehicle through which HRD professionals and HRD academics can debate the challenges and opportunities facing the future of HRD itself and construct practical and meaningful HRD solutions for individuals and organisations.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Please follow the link to view the Conference Overview Programme
STREAM SCHEDULES
Detailed Stream Schedule are now available, follow the link to view Stream Schedules - showing the programme for all papers within a Stream and Session Schedules - to view all presentations being delivered each day.
On planning the schedule, the Committee have incorporated many requests for paper scheduling and cannot consider any further requests. If, due to unforeseen circumstances, the Committee need to change the time of a presentation, they guarantee that it will be scheduled on the same day as currently scheduled
STREAMS
In addition to the HRD Doctoral Workshop the following streams are available for the 10th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe:
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Deadline for accepted papers and abstracts:
Tuesday 5th May 2009
An author from each accepted paper/symposium must have registered for the conference by Wednesday 22nd April 2009, for the paper to be included in the conference. Registering before this date also allows delegates to take advantage of our early bird reduced rate.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
For information on the submission process, please click here
REGISTRATION
Registration for the conference has now closed.
If you have not already registered and have a query regarding registration, please email: hrd@nortumbria.ac.uk
If you have already registered and have a query, please contact hrd@whymangroup.com
UFHRD SURVEY OF HRD ACADEMICS
UFHRD invites HRD academics to complete a survey it is conducting regarding doctoral supervision. The links below will take you to a letter from UFHRD explaining the survey and to the survey itself.
Click here to view the letter
Click here to proceed to the survey
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