Outputs (5)

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD. European Journal of Training and Development, 38(5), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-04-2014-0034

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource development (HRD). Although issues of sustainability and CSR have become an important topic of rese... Read More about Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD.

Human capital or signalling, unpacking the graduate premium (2014)
Journal Article
Pericles Rospigliosi, A., Greener, S., Bourner, T., & Sheehan, M. (2014). Human capital or signalling, unpacking the graduate premium. International Journal of Social Economics, 41(5), 420-432. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2013-0056

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to revisit the debate on the contribution of higher education (HE) to the economy which has been dominated by human capital theory and signalling theory. Human capital theory contends that HE contributes by addi... Read More about Human capital or signalling, unpacking the graduate premium.

Innovation and human resource development (HRD) (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Innovation and human resource development (HRD). European Journal of Training and Development, 38(1/2), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2013-0128

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of human resource development (HRD) and innovation which has been under-researched despite the widespread recognition of the critical role of innovation for sustained national... Read More about Innovation and human resource development (HRD).

Investment in Training and Development in Times of Uncertainty (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (2014). Investment in Training and Development in Times of Uncertainty. Advances in developing human resources, 16(1), 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422313508924

The Problem: While there is some consensus in the economics literature that there is a negative association between uncertainty and investment in capital, whether this relationship applies to investment in human capital—in particular training and de... Read More about Investment in Training and Development in Times of Uncertainty.

Uncertainty and Ongoing Economic Turbulence: Implications for HRD (2014)
Journal Article
McCarthy, A., & Sheehan, M. (2014). Uncertainty and Ongoing Economic Turbulence: Implications for HRD. Advances in developing human resources, 16(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422313508923

The Problem The global financial crisis and uncertainty has the potential to significantly affect the human resource development (HRD) field in terms of investment levels in training and development; the nature, content, and focus of HRD interventio... Read More about Uncertainty and Ongoing Economic Turbulence: Implications for HRD.