...Stephen Willcocks; Tony Conway Evaluates a competence‐based management development programme for a public sector client. Utilizes qualitative methodology to gather data about the impact of the programme on participants′ behaviour and skills. The focus is a large city council, and the participants...

... work units. Leadership is necessary because of the need for courage in facing new and potentially threatening ways of working. Isolated management development initiatives can always help, but changing the way people work is more likely to succeed if a network of leaders engenders commitment...

... the needs of people in each store. The development of a competency framework was also essential to support the achievement of critical success factors. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Customer service Food industry Management development Management styles Performance appraisal Personal development...

... Experiential learning Leadership Management development Outdoor development Personal development plans Self‐development Team building Training techniques This article represents something of a risk for me – for two reasons. First, because it contains personal reflections upon myself and I am...

... development Problem solving Strategy The big idea of management development over the past ten years has surely been management competence. Few of us have been unaffected by the activities of its advocates. As managers we have been encouraged to embark on competency‐based training and development...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1994 Banking industry Business schools Management development Midland Bank Corporate culture Perceptions Every programme has got to be modularized and include action learning and project management with time back in the company to reinforce the learning experience...

..., these competencies have to be understood and delivered with an international perspective, designed to build on the strengths of very different management development traditions. There are three competing influences on the future shape of European management education (and organizational HRM) as shown in Figure...

... competitive advantage in these areas is essential for all managers, whatever their level in the organization, their functional responsibilities or their academic and professional backgrounds. Appreciating the potential of new technology is an essential element in management development programmes...

... in recent years that will continue to affect fundamentally the environment in which MBA programmes operate. Business schools Management development Masters of Business Administration USA Last spring while reading Business Week, I came across the following text: “Wanted, smooth...

...John Daniel Examines the increasing role of distance learning in management development, drawing on the success of the Open University and the Open Business School. Concludes that distance learning will supply long‐term job‐related development processes for managers. However, the most...

...Judy Oliver The management development market has become client‐led but it remains difficult to make sense of a saturated market. Presents an investment formula for management development which has been applied in Kent County Council. Like business in the public and private sectors...

... with this new role, consciously decided to “abdicate” their direction‐giving role. Further research in this area is clearly required. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Competences Competency framework Directors Executives Management Charter Initiative Management development The competencies...

...Richard L. Bunning Describes a management development programme which has evolved to give middle and upper managers a “bird′s eye view” of their own organization as a total enterprise. Completed over ten to 12 months, the course employs a variety of action learning techniques including a pre‐course...

... and organizational learning. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Attitudes Employee communications Induction Management development Managers The popular business press has chronicled the failure of some high‐level managers appointed from outside an organization to take charge of their new positions...

... 1994 Executives Feedback Internal communications Management development Performance appraisal Succession planning Recently, the senior team of our Fortune Fifty company played “Pin the tail on the donkey”. It was not anyone′s birthday, so what was a donkey doing in the executive suite...

... heights and eye tests, I just kept thinking of the first time we tried to organize insurance for the trip to the zoo. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Competences Executives Management development Training Women When I was first asked to write an article on the theme of women′s management...

...Kimberly A. Wade‐Benzoni; William E. Fulmer Describes an effort by a large US company, GTE, to evaluate the impact of a major management development effort and to decide how best the group responsible for the course should operate in the future to be most effective in performing its role...

...John Temperley Examines the author′s view of future organization requirements and how training and development can provide the means of integrating the organization and the individual. Considers two cases and provides a framework. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Competences Management development...

... except the last are capable of being influenced by planning and preparation, and the purpose of this article is to review the experience overall and make recommendations for improving the practice of temporary promotion. Executives Experiential learning Job promotion Management development...

.... The steady disappearance of middle management requires short‐term skills in work management and planning. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Competences Management Charter Initiative Management development Skills This is an especially important time in the development of thinking about the kinds...