... at the operating core can make knowing the exact worth of an organisation’s “intellectual capital” a difficult task indeed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Competences Management development Organizational development Skills The ability for an organisation to change relies on: 1 the analysis...

... Management development Top management The demand for excellent leadership within the National Health Service (NHS) has never been greater. A combination of factors is simultaneously unleashing in the acute sector a range of forces and pressures which require creative leadership to solve them (Hansom...

... of these changes, it is possible to identify a new alternative to more conventional in‐house management training and the pursuit of postgraduate management qualifications. An example of this “third way” in action is offered through the description of an in‐house accredited management development programme run...

...John Edmonstone The new education commissioning system in England is designed to deal with the “big numbers” of professional education, yet also applies to management development. Reviews national advice in this field. Suggests that management development is unlikely to feature highly...

... of staff turnover. Reviews these issues and suggests subordinate appraisal of managers as one possible response. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Appraisals Management development National Health Service Subordinates It is frequently difficult to recruit and retain staff in many...

... for management development. Warns that full integration of the Internet into health manpower management will involve radical organizational and process re‐engineering. This article explores the benefits available to health‐care professionals and academic researchers from exposure to the Internet...

..., problem‐solving approach and involving the discipline of economics in tandem with other skills and subjects, it addresses some of the issues which medical personnel face in their places of work. © Company 1996 Management development Medical professions This article seeks to outline some...

... and the formation of NHS trust hospitals, the Department of Health announced in December 1989 an initiative to fund some 360 senior hospital consultants on regional management development programmes, which included attendance at a business school. These programmes ran between 1990 and 1993 and some £3 million...

...J. Herman Gilligan The last in a series which evaluates the use of self‐managed learning in management development processes within health care settings. Analyses the evolution of the leadership development programme established by the Lutheran Health System in the mid‐West USA. The structure...

... studies Experiential learning Health authorities Learning styles Management development Organizational structure Self‐assessment Training techniques This article discusses the design of a training intervention aimed at clinicians in West Birmingham Health Authority. Reflections...

...J. Herman Gilligan; Ros Boddington Evaluates the use of self‐managed learning (SML) in management development processes in health‐care settings. Focuses on the application of SML to region‐wide management development initiatives in the South West Thames Region of the UK National Health Service (NHS...

... UP Limited 1994 Communications Experts Health care Management development National Health Service Terminology Picture the scene, familiar to most. You have been handed the wine‐list– red folder, eight glossy pages. Your eyes begin to glaze over as you flip the pages and try...

...J. Herman Gilligan This is the first in a series of three articles which evaluate the use of self‐managed learning (SML) in management development processes in health care settings. This first article, being more general, outlines SML′s philosophical origins, strategic design, and current practice...

... different interpretations of the extent to which competence assessment provides evidence equivalent to the analytical interpretations required at postgraduate levels. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Assessment Higher education Management development Management studies National Health Service...

... and is centred on the reality of the work currently undertaken by doctors. The content is derived mainly from our fieldwork experiences over the last two years and is designed to illustrate the need for putting management development for general practice on the NHS priority list. It is too easy to dismiss...

... of the Management Development Scheme for Hospital Consultants , NHSME Personnel Development Division , Leeds , 1994 . 2 . Levinson , D. , The Seasons of Man′s Life , Knopf , New York, NY , 1978 . 3 . Evans , P. , “ International Management Development and the Balance between Generalism...

... to contextualize and consolidate learning in the workplace prior to revisiting their performance at a later date. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Assessment Competences Management development National Health Service Open learning Professional qualifications Vocational training Workplace learning...

... and work of others researching and practising in primary care. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Doctors General practice Leadership Management development Managers National Health Service Service Organizational change Strategic planning Values Four years on from the publication...

... to improve cost‐efficiency, and barriers to change within organizations. This last presents a number of problems that may often seem intractable and are peculiar to this type of organization. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Costs Health care Management development Organizational change USA ...

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