{"title":"Workplace Reflection in the Age of AI: Materiality, Technology, and Machines","authors":"L. Yorks, D. Rotatori, SeoYoon Sung, S. Justice","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927299","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem This article explores the nature of reflection within the workplace during the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), a period characterized by the proliferation of cognitive technologies—like artificial intelligence (AI)—which are changing the nature of work. This piece explores the manner in which individuals and teams learn through reflective practice as a result of increased human–machine collaboration in the 4IR since it has not been extensively researched. The Solution Through an analysis of Anand Rao’s three-tiered model of AI—assisted intelligence, augmented intelligence, and autonomous intelligence—and by using data collected through a semi-structured interview process that situated the article within a particular sector of the economy—the health care industry—this article provides a framework for understanding the workplace, and human-machine collaboration, during the 4IR. The Stakeholders Human resource development practitioners and researchers interested in the role of cognitive technologies within the workplace and their impact on human reflection.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46155910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting Action Learning Strategies to Operationalize Reflection in the Workplace","authors":"P. Faller, V. Marsick, C. Russell","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927298","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem Organizations and human resources development (HRD) leaders are challenged to rethink and adapt learning and development strategies to address current and future needs. Yet, performance demands—as well as limited space, time, and resources—mean employees need to learn on their own. Not everyone knows how to do that well. The question arises: How can HRD better support employee learning? The Solution Reflective learning practices based on action learning (AL) support work-based learning. AL “tools” help peers learn by working together in diverse groups of nonexperts on real tasks to gain new perspectives and learn to frame and solve challenges. The Stakeholders This article shows, through a review of existing reflective processes and tools, how HRD practitioners can adapt these practices to help groups of peers and teams learn while working, to support the organization and its members in fast-changing environments.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45745448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postscript: How We Learn Is How We SEE","authors":"E. Morrison, R. Kowalski","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927301","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem Workplace learning is even more important today as organizations face complex, rapid, and unprecedented change. Reflection is critical to learning; yet, it is too often rote, haphazard, or assumed to happen, limiting an organization’s ability to adapt. The Solution HRD scholar-practitioners need to (re)examine how they and their organizations reflect. By engaging in an ongoing practice of reflexivity, they can become more aware of how their perspectives affect not only what they see, but also what they learn and vice versa. The Stakeholders HRD scholar-practitioners, including researchers, faculty, consultants, managers, students, and all who care about workplace learning and reflective practice, will benefit by reflecting on how they can develop individual and collective capacity.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47973268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overview: Why and How Does Reflection Matter in Workplace Learning?","authors":"P. Faller, H. Lundgren, V. Marsick","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927295","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem While reflection is central to adult learning processes and theories, its meaning and definitions vary. Authors approach reflection from different perspectives and assumptions. The Solution This article is a conceptual map to guide the reader through key definitions and perspectives discussed in upcoming articles. We provide a compass for reflection, critical reflection, reflective practice, and how these terms apply to learning from experience, meaning-making, and action in the workplace. We also show how different perspectives or lenses can impact a human resource development (HRD) practitioner’s approach to reflection and present several studies looking at reflection and reflective practices. The Stakeholders This article should help HRD practitioners and others engaged in supporting workplace learning to gain clarity about how to conceptualize reflection and reflective practices and become familiar with the different ways reflection is understood by authors of upcoming articles.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927295","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43505365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Only Option Is Failure”: Growing Safe to Fail Workplaces for Critical Reflection","authors":"Aliki Nicolaides, R. Poell","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927296","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem Whereas critical reflection has been the hallmark of learning from experience in the workplace, performance has been the hallmark for productivity. In the face of complex, ongoing, disruptive change, failing safe is a necessary condition for learning from experience, and critical reflection the method of learning from safe to fail experiments. How can workplaces be safe to fail spaces where critical reflection is embraced, encouraged, and rewarded? The Solution We focus especially on the role of the leader to create a climate of psychological safety where it is safe to practice critical reflection. The workplace needs to become a safe place to fail to facilitate productivity, innovation, and creative responses to the demands that ensue from disruption at work. The Stakeholders This article is relevant to human resource development (HRD) scholars and practitioners who are interested in developing the workplace in times of uncertainly and constant disruption.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49305760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enacting Reflection: A New Approach to Workplace Complexities","authors":"S. Justice, E. Morrison, L. Yorks","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927300","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem Change has changed, and workplaces are grappling with new complexities and ambiguities. Human resource development (HRD) scholar-practitioners are called upon to help workplaces learn to navigate these changes; however, traditional approaches have limited utility when dealing with dynamic, emergent change. To address these limitations, scholars have proposed adopting enactive approaches that are rooted in systems thinking and complexity theories, but there is limited understanding of what this means in HRD practice. The Solution This article explores HRD responses to change from an enactive perspective. Enactivism suggests that people create their context through engagement with physical and social environments. From this perspective, reflection is not necessarily “on” experience, as if somehow separate from it. Rather, reflection is active engagement in, by, and through experience. This article aims to expand theoretical understanding and practical applications of enactivism in workplace learning. The Stakeholders HRD scholar-practitioners seeking new options for navigating workplace learning complexities.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48475099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk and Reflection in the Academic Workplace","authors":"Judith Walker, Stephanie A. Oldford","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927297","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem Universities are workplaces designed for learning, research, and reflection. In recent years, an amalgam of issues, both internal and external, have emerged, making critical reflection more difficult and riskier for both academic and nonacademic staff. The Solution We argue that positive leadership, dialogue, and group connection can help counter increasing isolation and in effect make reflection more possible. The Stakeholders This article is relevant not only to human resource development (HRD) scholars and practitioners within the context of postsecondary institutions but also to large and complex bureaucratic organizations grappling with a changing landscape of employment.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46016223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How We SEE Is How We Learn: Reflection in the Workplace","authors":"R. Kowalski, C. Russell","doi":"10.1177/1523422320927294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320927294","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem Today’s workers face constant economic, social, scientific, and technological change — a challenging climate for learning. Learners need to integrate and balance acting, reflecting, thinking, and feeling as they negotiate within this everchanging environment. The Solution This Special Issue explores workplace learning’s power through the understanding and application of reflective practices which are often informal and incidental and occur as individuals engage and learn from the experience of their daily activities. The Stakeholders HRD scholars and practitioners will benefit from an understanding of the tools and practices that facilitate workplace learning through reflection. This Special Issue provides a theoretical framing of workplace reflection, situates reflection in various contexts, offers examples of use in the workplace, addresses its risks, and raises questions for both research and practice.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320927294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45392996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vicarious Learning From Innovative Women Entrepreneurs in Thailand","authors":"Dawisa Sritanyarat, Malinvisa Sakdiyakorn","doi":"10.1177/1523422320907049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320907049","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem The number of Thai women entrepreneurs has increased to nearly half of all Thai entrepreneurs over the past years with 80% of them reported to have entered into opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. This growing social phenomenon, however, remains underexplored by limited numbers of academic studies on Thai women entrepreneurship. Extending the understanding of opportunity-driven women entrepreneurs in the changing Thai context is therefore significant for developing national human resources. The Solution This study highlights the opportunity-driven category of women entrepreneurs defined by Cromie and Hayes as Innovators. Taking the phenomenological approach as a research method, in-depth interviews from 13 innovative women business owners in Thailand were analyzed to understand their motivations, challenges, and success factors, as well as the contemporary worldview of the Thai culture and values concerning gender roles and social norms. The Stakeholders National policymakers, educators, human resource development professionals, and parents can craft policies and practices that align with key learnings from the lived experiences of women entrepreneurs. Aspiring women entrepreneurs can also vicariously learn from the study participants who serve as role models.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320907049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45180062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Self-Leadership Development of Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs","authors":"R. Rasdi, Siti Raba’ah Hamzah, Tan Fee Yean","doi":"10.1177/1523422320907048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320907048","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem In Malaysia, women entrepreneurs are underrepresented, and little is known about their development of self-leadership. Official statistics indicate that approximately half of the businesses run by women remain underperforming. This shows that women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership is an issue that should be addressed. The Solution This study aims to explore self-leadership development of Malaysian women entrepreneurs. Qualitative interviews with seven women entrepreneurs were conducted. The study findings indicated that self-leadership is a process that can be developed and mastered by women entrepreneurs so that they have better chances of success in their business start-ups. This study provides a model of the self-leadership process that illustrates a range of influences that are likely to contribute to women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development. The Stakeholders The model developed would be beneficial to human resource development (HRD) practitioners and Malaysian government agencies (e.g., SME Corporation Malaysia) that design and deliver interventions (e.g., incubator programs and training workshops) focusing on women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development.","PeriodicalId":51549,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Developing Human Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1523422320907048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41959041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}