Understanding managerial development: integrating developmental assignments, learning orientation and access to developmental opportunities in predicting managerial competencies

Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 24, Issue 2

Dragoni L., Tesluk P.E., Russell J.E.A., OhI-S.Academy of Management Journal (USA),August 2009Vol. 52 No. 4Start page: 731No. of pages: 13

Purpose – Studies the effect of integrating work experience, leadership development, and learning literatures to develop and test a model of managerial development linking experience in highly developmental assignments, learning goal orientation, and access to developmental assignments. Design/methodology/approach – Reviews the literature relating to the developmental quality of managerial assignments is presented to provide the basis for the development of the model. Reports the results of a questionnaire survey, involving 218 junior-level managers and their supervisors, recruited from the part-time MBA population at a large, unnamed mid-Atlantic US University, to gather data to test the model.Article type: Research paperISSN: 0001-4273Reference: 38AX032

Keywords: Career development, Competences, Junior management, Junior managers, Line managers, Masters of business administration,Part time students, Surveys, Universities, USA