Edited by Mark N.K. Saunders, Emeritus Professor, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and Paul Tosey, Senior Lecturer in Management, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK

• Contents:Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The Variety of Methods for Researching HRDMark N.K. Saunders and Paul ToseyPART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES2. Paradigms, Philosophical Prisms and Pragmatism in HRD ResearchBob Hamlin3. HRD Research and Design ScienceEugene Sadler-Smith4. Scholarly Practice in HRD ResearchJeff Gold, Tim Spackman, Diane Marks, Nick Beech, Julia Calver, Adrian Ogun and Helen Whitrod-Brown5. Using Systematic Review Methodology to Examine the Extant LiteratureCéline Rojon and Almuth McDowallPART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH6. Ethnographic Research in HRD – Managing a Betrayal?Dawn Langley7. In (Re)search of the Self: Autoethnography in HRD ResearchSally Sambrook8. Opening the Visual Methods ToolboxKate Black and Russell Warhurst9. The Use of Photo Elicitation Interviewing in Qualitative HRD ResearchRussell Warhurst and Kate Black10. Action Research for HRD ResearchRosalie Holian and David Coghlan11. Critical Action Learning Research: Opportunities and Challenges for HRD Research and PracticeKiran Trehan and Clare Rigg12. Facilitating Learning Using the Service Template Extended Process (STEP) Within a Process Consultation FrameworkMark N.K. Saunders, Paul Tosey, Claire Jones, Christine S. Williams13. Emergent Discourses of Learning and Community Formation: Exploring Social Media for Professional Learning Peter Evans14. And What Kind of Question is That? Thinking About the Function of Questions in Qualitative Interviewing Paul ToseyPART III QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH15. Using Questionnaire Surveys to Gather Data for Within Organisation HRD ResearchCinla Akinci and Mark N.K. Saunders16. Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Using Online Surveys in HRD Longitudinal Research Jim Stewart and Victoria Harte17. Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD ResearchMaura Sheehan, Mark N.K. Saunders and Catherine L. Wang18. Using Critical Incidents and Vignette Technique in HRD Research to Investigate Learning Activities and Behaviour at WorkRegina H. Mulder19. Accounting for Complexity: Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in HRD ResearchChristoph König, Gerhard Messmann, Regina H. Mulder and Sven De Maeyer20. Using Systematic Content Analysis to Establish Theory-practice Links in HRD LiteratureRob F. PoellPART IV METHODOLOGIAL CHALLENGES21. The Competing Interests of Paradigm and Praxis in Critical HRD Research: Incorporating Quantitative Methods to Enact Critical PracticeJamie L. Callahan and Gary Connor22. Mixed Methods in HRD Research: Theory and Practice from a Study of Hong Kong SMEsSteven Tam and David E. Gray23. Key Issues for Gender Research in HRD: A Multi-stakeholder Framework for Analysing Gendered Media Constructions of Women’s LeadersSharon Mavin and Jannine Williams24. Leadership Development as a Method of Enquiry: Insights from a Post-structuralist PerspectiveCarole Elliott and Valerie Stead25. Navigating Extra Sensitive Research Topics Utilizing Content Analysis and Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)Thomas Garavan and Clíodhna MacKenzieIndex

‘An impressive range of HRD scholars have contributed to this excellent Handbook which offers a timely addition to both the HRD and the research methods literatures. HRD researchers who consult this book will find a thoughtful pathway through the debates and dialogues that feature in our dynamic and evolving field. The book provides practical guidance about research making use of emerging as well as established forms of data and approaches to analysis that can advance knowledge in the HRD domain. I commend it to novice as well as to experienced researchers. I will certainly be referring to it myself as I seek to develop my expertise as an HRD scholar and researcher.’

Edited by Mark N.K. Saunders, Emeritus Professor, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and Paul Tosey, Senior Lecturer in Management, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK

• Contents:Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The Variety of Methods for Researching HRDMark N.K. Saunders and Paul ToseyPART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES2. Paradigms, Philosophical Prisms and Pragmatism in HRD ResearchBob Hamlin3. HRD Research and Design ScienceEugene Sadler-Smith4. Scholarly Practice in HRD ResearchJeff Gold, Tim Spackman, Diane Marks, Nick Beech, Julia Calver, Adrian Ogun and Helen Whitrod-Brown5. Using Systematic Review Methodology to Examine the Extant LiteratureCéline Rojon and Almuth McDowallPART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH6. Ethnographic Research in HRD – Managing a Betrayal?Dawn Langley7. In (Re)search of the Self: Autoethnography in HRD ResearchSally Sambrook8. Opening the Visual Methods ToolboxKate Black and Russell Warhurst9. The Use of Photo Elicitation Interviewing in Qualitative HRD ResearchRussell Warhurst and Kate Black10. Action Research for HRD ResearchRosalie Holian and David Coghlan11. Critical Action Learning Research: Opportunities and Challenges for HRD Research and PracticeKiran Trehan and Clare Rigg12. Facilitating Learning Using the Service Template Extended Process (STEP) Within a Process Consultation FrameworkMark N.K. Saunders, Paul Tosey, Claire Jones, Christine S. Williams13. Emergent Discourses of Learning and Community Formation: Exploring Social Media for Professional Learning Peter Evans14. And What Kind of Question is That? Thinking About the Function of Questions in Qualitative Interviewing Paul ToseyPART III QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH15. Using Questionnaire Surveys to Gather Data for Within Organisation HRD ResearchCinla Akinci and Mark N.K. Saunders16. Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Using Online Surveys in HRD Longitudinal Research Jim Stewart and Victoria Harte17. Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD ResearchMaura Sheehan, Mark N.K. Saunders and Catherine L. Wang18. Using Critical Incidents and Vignette Technique in HRD Research to Investigate Learning Activities and Behaviour at WorkRegina H. Mulder19. Accounting for Complexity: Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in HRD ResearchChristoph König, Gerhard Messmann, Regina H. Mulder and Sven De Maeyer20. Using Systematic Content Analysis to Establish Theory-practice Links in HRD LiteratureRob F. PoellPART IV METHODOLOGIAL CHALLENGES21. The Competing Interests of Paradigm and Praxis in Critical HRD Research: Incorporating Quantitative Methods to Enact Critical PracticeJamie L. Callahan and Gary Connor22. Mixed Methods in HRD Research: Theory and Practice from a Study of Hong Kong SMEsSteven Tam and David E. Gray23. Key Issues for Gender Research in HRD: A Multi-stakeholder Framework for Analysing Gendered Media Constructions of Women’s LeadersSharon Mavin and Jannine Williams24. Leadership Development as a Method of Enquiry: Insights from a Post-structuralist PerspectiveCarole Elliott and Valerie Stead25. Navigating Extra Sensitive Research Topics Utilizing Content Analysis and Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)Thomas Garavan and Clíodhna MacKenzieIndex

‘An impressive range of HRD scholars have contributed to this excellent Handbook which offers a timely addition to both the HRD and the research methods literatures. HRD researchers who consult this book will find a thoughtful pathway through the debates and dialogues that feature in our dynamic and evolving field. The book provides practical guidance about research making use of emerging as well as established forms of data and approaches to analysis that can advance knowledge in the HRD domain. I commend it to novice as well as to experienced researchers. I will certainly be referring to it myself as I seek to develop my expertise as an HRD scholar and researcher.’

Edited by Mark N.K. Saunders, Emeritus Professor, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and Paul Tosey, Senior Lecturer in Management, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK

• Contents:Acknowledgements1. Introduction: The Variety of Methods for Researching HRDMark N.K. Saunders and Paul ToseyPART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES2. Paradigms, Philosophical Prisms and Pragmatism in HRD ResearchBob Hamlin3. HRD Research and Design ScienceEugene Sadler-Smith4. Scholarly Practice in HRD ResearchJeff Gold, Tim Spackman, Diane Marks, Nick Beech, Julia Calver, Adrian Ogun and Helen Whitrod-Brown5. Using Systematic Review Methodology to Examine the Extant LiteratureCéline Rojon and Almuth McDowallPART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH6. Ethnographic Research in HRD – Managing a Betrayal?Dawn Langley7. In (Re)search of the Self: Autoethnography in HRD ResearchSally Sambrook8. Opening the Visual Methods ToolboxKate Black and Russell Warhurst9. The Use of Photo Elicitation Interviewing in Qualitative HRD ResearchRussell Warhurst and Kate Black10. Action Research for HRD ResearchRosalie Holian and David Coghlan11. Critical Action Learning Research: Opportunities and Challenges for HRD Research and PracticeKiran Trehan and Clare Rigg12. Facilitating Learning Using the Service Template Extended Process (STEP) Within a Process Consultation FrameworkMark N.K. Saunders, Paul Tosey, Claire Jones, Christine S. Williams13. Emergent Discourses of Learning and Community Formation: Exploring Social Media for Professional Learning Peter Evans14. And What Kind of Question is That? Thinking About the Function of Questions in Qualitative Interviewing Paul ToseyPART III QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH15. Using Questionnaire Surveys to Gather Data for Within Organisation HRD ResearchCinla Akinci and Mark N.K. Saunders16. Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Using Online Surveys in HRD Longitudinal Research Jim Stewart and Victoria Harte17. Maximising Telephone Survey Participation in International HRD ResearchMaura Sheehan, Mark N.K. Saunders and Catherine L. Wang18. Using Critical Incidents and Vignette Technique in HRD Research to Investigate Learning Activities and Behaviour at WorkRegina H. Mulder19. Accounting for Complexity: Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in HRD ResearchChristoph König, Gerhard Messmann, Regina H. Mulder and Sven De Maeyer20. Using Systematic Content Analysis to Establish Theory-practice Links in HRD LiteratureRob F. PoellPART IV METHODOLOGIAL CHALLENGES21. The Competing Interests of Paradigm and Praxis in Critical HRD Research: Incorporating Quantitative Methods to Enact Critical PracticeJamie L. Callahan and Gary Connor22. Mixed Methods in HRD Research: Theory and Practice from a Study of Hong Kong SMEsSteven Tam and David E. Gray23. Key Issues for Gender Research in HRD: A Multi-stakeholder Framework for Analysing Gendered Media Constructions of Women’s LeadersSharon Mavin and Jannine Williams24. Leadership Development as a Method of Enquiry: Insights from a Post-structuralist PerspectiveCarole Elliott and Valerie Stead25. Navigating Extra Sensitive Research Topics Utilizing Content Analysis and Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)Thomas Garavan and Clíodhna MacKenzieIndex

‘An impressive range of HRD scholars have contributed to this excellent Handbook which offers a timely addition to both the HRD and the research methods literatures. HRD researchers who consult this book will find a thoughtful pathway through the debates and dialogues that feature in our dynamic and evolving field. The book provides practical guidance about research making use of emerging as well as established forms of data and approaches to analysis that can advance knowledge in the HRD domain. I commend it to novice as well as to experienced researchers. I will certainly be referring to it myself as I seek to develop my expertise as an HRD scholar and researcher.’