Article
Organizational Learning, Community, and Virtual HRD: Advancing the Discussion
New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development
(2017)
Abstract
Virtual human resource development (VHRD) has been ongoing for approximately a decade, though it has been gaining traction in recent years as more authors collaborate to advance the field’s knowledge and processes regarding technology’s role in the workplace. It is a necessary shift because the changing nature of organizational life includes many virtual representations and technologies with which people interact and from which people learn (Bennett, 2009, 2010a; Bennett & McWhorter, 2014; Dodgson, Gann, & Phillips, 2013). Organizations learn and transform as a result, especially as more work is technologically mediated (McWhorter, 2010). We offer this article as a means to further advance the discussion in Mutamba (2017, this issue), which addresses the connection among various concepts of organizational learning, learning organizations, virtual technology, and virtual communities of practice. We believe there are missing links extant in the literature on VHRD that are helpful to bring into the conversation to further our understanding of the issues.
Keywords
- Virtual HRD,
- virtual technologies,
- informal learning,
- organizational learning
Disciplines
Publication Date
August 17, 2017
DOI
10.1002/nha3.20188
Citation Information
Bennett, E. E. and McWhorter, R. R. (2017), Organizational Learning, Community, and Virtual HRD: Advancing the Discussion. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 29: 19–27. doi:10.1002/nha3.20188