Analysis Human Resource Development Strategies in Banking Industry Based on Critical Discourse Approach

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Hamed Dehghanan 1
Vahid Khashei 2
Seyed Mojtaba Mahmoudzadeh 3
Mahya Mohammadi 4
1 Assistant Prof., Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate Prof., Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant Prof., Tourism Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
4 Ph.D. Student, Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to identify the dominant discourse on texts related to human resource development strategies in the banking industry that represent the reality of education and learning. In fact, in addition to identifying the type of dominant discourse, we examine key concepts in discourse order. This research is based on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) method. The theoretical framework that Fairclough introduces, involves a variety of concepts that have been used for research purposes. Fairclough analyzes these concepts in a three-dimensional model. According to this model, the selected text, which is a "comprehensive system of education and human resource development" in the banking industry, was analyzed in detail at the three levels of description, interpretation and explanation. The results of the analysis showed that the dominant discourse on human resource development strategies in the banking industry is articulated through the discourse elements of integration perspective, performance-based approach and guided learning activities and the order of discourse dominates the whole of this discourse.
Keywords
Human resource development (HRD)
Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA)
theories of the self and work
theories of workplace learning
learning theories

Subjects

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Organizational Resources Management Researches
Volume 11, Issue 3
December 2021
Pages 45-69