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Joan Muszynski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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LibGuides: Support Smart: Personal Development
2018Co-Authors: Joan MuszynskiAbstract:Student Services' support guide for Academic School Staff and other student facing staff All about Personal Development to enhance your life and career.
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LibGuides: LIVE Smart: Personal Development
2018Co-Authors: Joan MuszynskiAbstract:Student guide to living and studying in Dundee. Aligned with LEARN Smart All about Personal Development to enhance your life and career.
Luis Rocha-lona - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Personal Development review (PDR) process and engineering staff motivation
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2014Co-Authors: Claire Baldwin, Jose Arturo Garza-reyes, Vikas Kumar, Luis Rocha-lonaAbstract:Purpose – The academic literature and motivational theory recognise the positive role of motivation on organisational performance and considers Personal Development as a key motivational factor. In practice, most organisations employ a Personal Development Review (PDR) process to drive and plan the Development of their staff. This paper investigates the interrelation and impact of the PDR process, and its elements, on staff motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a case study research approach carried out in two large manufacturing-engineering departments of a world-class manufacturing organisation. A survey questionnaire was designed, validated and distributed to the engineering staff and its results were analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings – The study’s results indicate that in most of the cases, a PDR process does not by itself motivate staff. But it argues that a poorly designed and conducted PDR process may make motivation, through Personal Development, difficult to achieve. Practical implications – This paper provides manufacturing managers with an opportunity to understand whether a common business process (i.e. PDR), and the elements that comprise it, can be employed as a method to aid in the motivation of their staff. Original value – This research expands the current knowledge on motivational and manufacturing management theory by performing an initial and exploratory study that establishes the impact of the PDR process on staff motivation. It is among the very first investigations that correlate the PDR process and motivation, especially in the manufacturing industry.
Anne B. Ryan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sources for a politicised practice of women's Personal Development education
1999Co-Authors: Anne B. RyanAbstract:In this chapter I argue that, in the drive to subvert the gender status quo and bring about gender justice, women's Personal Development education should not be abandoned. It should, however, be reconstituted and radically politicised, by taking on board feminist poststructuralist insights about the human subject and the social world. Such insights challenge the liberal humanist models of the person which dominate most approaches to adult education, including women's Personal Development education In turn, these models have much in common with mainstream psychology. In attending to the Personal, we need to recognise the restrictive nature of the dominant frameworks which shape our thinking about the Personal and the emotional.
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Feminist Subjectivities:sources for a politicised practice ofwomen's Personal Development education
1997Co-Authors: Anne B. RyanAbstract:This thesis offers an account of the processes through which feminist subjectivities are constructed. Subjectivity is a central theoretical concept of the work and is conceptualised throughout from a poststructuralist perspective. Implicit in this perspective is the understanding that subjectivity is social, dynamic and multiple. Drawing in particular on feminist poststructuralist and psychodynamic thought, the theoretical objective of the work is to advance theories of adult politicisation, human agency and critical adult education. Based on original fieldwork with self-defined feminist women, feminist subjectivity is characterised as a three-way production involving a) different feminist discourses, b) relations in present situations and c) emotional responses. Taking into account the complex picture of feminist subjectivity which the research provides, the thesis also asks if politicised subjectivities can be produced within the context of women’s Personal Development education. This is a timely question, given the enormous popularity of women’s Personal Development education in Ireland. Such education is predominantly practised within a human relations psychology framework which in turn draws on liberal humanist assumptions about the person, power and the nature of social change. Such practice is shown in this work to have depoliticising effects. It is argued that Personal Development education can be practised in politically radical ways, if it draws on theoretical resources outside liberal humanism. The thesis builds on its own picture of feminist subjectivities to make proposals for a practice of Personal Development education which meets the stated needs of many women for attention to the Personal, but without sliding into a depoliticised individualism. The proposals are living, practical and specifically designed for an educational context. The thesis concludes by arguing that the training of Personal Development facilitators needs to be informed by a wide range of feminist discourses, especially including feminist poststructuralist theories. It also recommends that critical adult education provide the theoretical resources for politically radical Personal Development education, by addressing questions of subjectivity and human agency, and by treating gender differences as produced and open to change, rather than as given.
Jan Wilson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self-case study as a catalyst for Personal Development in cognitive therapy training
The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 2010Co-Authors: Niccy Fraser, Jan WilsonAbstract:Personal Development is a vital requirement of counsellor Development, and educators need to consider how best to promote and support students’ Personal Development throughout training. ‘Self-case study’ can provide both learning and Personal Development opportunities for counselling students. This qualitative narrative study explores seven students’ perspectives about their experiences of completing a self-case study as a learning requirement for a compulsory introductory course in cognitive therapy at undergraduate level. Unstructured individual interviews were used for data collection. Data analysis involved identifying themes and analysing the narrative structure of stories. The findings emphasized the view that self-case study provides useful learning opportunities in the areas of theory, practice and Personal Development. Most participants described transformational life changes resulting from completing a self-case study. This paper presents selected findings. The ethical issues and limitations of this study are discussed. Self-case study is recommended as a potentially effective education strategy.
Claire Baldwin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Personal Development review (PDR) process and engineering staff motivation
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2014Co-Authors: Claire Baldwin, Jose Arturo Garza-reyes, Vikas Kumar, Luis Rocha-lonaAbstract:Purpose – The academic literature and motivational theory recognise the positive role of motivation on organisational performance and considers Personal Development as a key motivational factor. In practice, most organisations employ a Personal Development Review (PDR) process to drive and plan the Development of their staff. This paper investigates the interrelation and impact of the PDR process, and its elements, on staff motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a case study research approach carried out in two large manufacturing-engineering departments of a world-class manufacturing organisation. A survey questionnaire was designed, validated and distributed to the engineering staff and its results were analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings – The study’s results indicate that in most of the cases, a PDR process does not by itself motivate staff. But it argues that a poorly designed and conducted PDR process may make motivation, through Personal Development, difficult to achieve. Practical implications – This paper provides manufacturing managers with an opportunity to understand whether a common business process (i.e. PDR), and the elements that comprise it, can be employed as a method to aid in the motivation of their staff. Original value – This research expands the current knowledge on motivational and manufacturing management theory by performing an initial and exploratory study that establishes the impact of the PDR process on staff motivation. It is among the very first investigations that correlate the PDR process and motivation, especially in the manufacturing industry.
