ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with analysing human resource development issues surrounding regional economic decline and its consequences for managers in terms of large-scale unemployment. Much learning can come from studying HRD interventions to support workers facing very adverse circumstances. A great deal of tax-payers’ money is commonly diverted to support interventional programmes such as retraining of unemployed workers. However, such research into these programmes as is carried out tends to be quantitative in nature, and broad brush in terms of bracketing unemployed workers of many kinds together.
