Coaching in the Workplace

The use of coaching as a workforce development strategy is the focus of this chapter. Coaching is enjoying a lot of popularity in terms of its uses by organisations internationally with the main purposes for using coaching being for individual development, leadership, and building capacity and emplo...

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Main Authors: Cameron, Roslyn, Ebrahimi, M.
Other Authors: Roger Harris
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-4560-58-0_14
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39506
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description The use of coaching as a workforce development strategy is the focus of this chapter. Coaching is enjoying a lot of popularity in terms of its uses by organisations internationally with the main purposes for using coaching being for individual development, leadership, and building capacity and employee engagement. This chapter can in no way cover all aspects and genres of coaching but attempts to provide a broad brush approach by discussing some of the key characteristics of coaching through defining it and delineating it from other similar interventions. This is followed by a presentation of the different coaching genres and their theoretical underpinnings before presenting details of two benchmark indicators of the growth of the coaching industry, namely the growing number of coaching associations and the emergence of scholarly journals reporting coaching research. We then turn to the results of four reputable surveys conducted on coaching from Australia, the UK and internationally before concluding with the presentation of a conceptual map of coaching within organisational contexts.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-395062023-02-27T07:34:32Z Coaching in the Workplace Cameron, Roslyn Ebrahimi, M. Roger Harris Tom Short learning and development workplace coaching critical management studies workplace learning workforce development human resource development workplace mentoring vocational education human resource management HRM HRD career planning The use of coaching as a workforce development strategy is the focus of this chapter. Coaching is enjoying a lot of popularity in terms of its uses by organisations internationally with the main purposes for using coaching being for individual development, leadership, and building capacity and employee engagement. This chapter can in no way cover all aspects and genres of coaching but attempts to provide a broad brush approach by discussing some of the key characteristics of coaching through defining it and delineating it from other similar interventions. This is followed by a presentation of the different coaching genres and their theoretical underpinnings before presenting details of two benchmark indicators of the growth of the coaching industry, namely the growing number of coaching associations and the emergence of scholarly journals reporting coaching research. We then turn to the results of four reputable surveys conducted on coaching from Australia, the UK and internationally before concluding with the presentation of a conceptual map of coaching within organisational contexts. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39506 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-4560-58-0_14 Springer restricted
spellingShingle learning and development
workplace coaching
critical management studies
workplace learning
workforce development
human resource development
workplace mentoring
vocational education
human resource management
HRM
HRD
career planning
Cameron, Roslyn
Ebrahimi, M.
Coaching in the Workplace
title Coaching in the Workplace
title_full Coaching in the Workplace
title_fullStr Coaching in the Workplace
title_full_unstemmed Coaching in the Workplace
title_short Coaching in the Workplace
title_sort coaching in the workplace
topic learning and development
workplace coaching
critical management studies
workplace learning
workforce development
human resource development
workplace mentoring
vocational education
human resource management
HRM
HRD
career planning
url http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-4560-58-0_14
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39506