Evaluating a Management‐Development Skills Programme in Local Government Available to Purchase

As a result of the fundamental reorganisation of local government functions, boundaries and structures implemented in 1974, the UK's Local Government Training Board launched a pilot Management Development Adviser (MDA) Programme in the following year. Initial programme design reflected the LGTB's belief that reorganisation, coupled with changes in the political, economic and social environment within which local authorities operated, placed greater emphasis on individuals' abilities to manage change at all levels within the organisation.