New Human Relations Research Findings from University of Leeds Reported (Unlearning and Consent In the Uk Fire and Rescue Service)

2021 AUG 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- Data detailed on Human Relations Research have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Leeds, United Kingdom, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Why does so much literature on unlearning ignore the people who do the unlearning? What would we understand differently if we focused on those people? Much of the existing literature argues that unlearning can only be achieved, and new knowledge acquired, if old knowledge is discarded: the clean slate approach. This might be a reasonable way of organising stock in a warehouse, where room needs to be created for new deliveries, but it is not an accurate description of a human system.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Leeds, “This article draws on a detailed qualitative study of learning in the UK Fire and Rescue Service to challenge the clean slate approach and demonstrate that, not only did firefighters retain their old knowledge, they used it as a benchmark to assess new routines and practices. This meant that firefighters’ trust in, and consent to, innovation was key to successful implementation.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In order to understand the social aspects of unlearning, this research focuses on the people involved as active agents, rather than passive recipients or discarders of knowledge.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Unlearning and Consent In the Uk Fire and Rescue Service. Human Relations, 2021:001872672110311. Human Relations can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Human Relations - hum.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Hugh Cook, University of Leeds, Business School, Employment Relat & Inman Resource Management, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include James Brooks and Irena Grugulis.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211031179. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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