... compares the content and outcomes of management and leadership training interventions for MMs in two large PSOs. The organisations, a fire brigade and a train operating company, are leaders in their sectors with respect to management development and “modernisation” of their services. Findings The paper...

... to explore the subject matter in greater detail. Practical implications The findings support the hypothesis that executive education providers within business schools are failing to address the management development needs of senior executives in the public sector. The paper concludes that there are huge...

... and concludes by offering significant learning points to those public sector organisations planning similar partnerships to facilitate management development. The past decade has seen considerable changes in the way that the UK public sector is organised and managed and in the way that public services...

...Graeme Currie Illustrates the failure of a competence‐based management development programme in a hospital trust to achieve organisational objectives. The approach and content of the management development programme is resisted by participants despite the facilitators drawing upon management theory...

... debate. Africa Competences Human resource management Management development Training © MCB UP Limited 1997 For example, if the organization identifies its strategic objectives as the procurement, processing and efficient marketing of grain, the concomitant SHRM decisions relate...

... in the UK, but also in the USA and New Zealand, and highlights the Civil Service’s emphasis on well‐trained, knowledgeable and professional staff. Central government Civil Service Management development Organizational change Training Ladies and gentlemen, I warmly welcome the opportunity...

... the implications of the above for senior management training and development in public sector briefly. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Management development Self‐development The art of management training and development, especially for senior managers, has come a long way since the prescriptive stand...

... authority and access to management development. Public agencies in Australia are not, generally, confronting the multifarious managerialist reforms with equanimity, largely because the value changes required are, in many cases, too great to be readily accommodated[ 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 ]. Australia...

... initiative on public management has been based on the special needs of public service management[31]. Pye has also suggested that not merely is the MCI approach flawed but that it ignores the specificities of public management[32]. This is not to suggest that all management development initiatives aimed...

... providing positive support and encouragement to desirable and sustainable developments. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Academic staff Colleges Education Management development Organizational change Public sector Universities United Kingdom An Enterprising Department An Enterprising Department...

... participation in the development process. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Africa Botswana Equal opportunities Gender Management development Women Gender Sensitivity in Public Management Education in Africa Victor Ayeni University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana Gender Sensitivity in Africa 47 The focus...

...Donald J. Savoie There has been a surge in interest in public management development in the 1980s. Countries that had no management development programmes introduced new ones, while countries already having such programmes made far‐reaching changes to them. Initiatives have been costly precisely...

... Canada Communications Management development Managers Media Public sector Managing the Message: An Approach to Communications Management in the Public Sector William Pullen Canadian Centre for Management Development, Ottawa, Canada Managing the Message 45 Introduction Government agencies serve...

...Donald J. Savoie For a variety of reasons, public management development policies have become the fad in many Western industrialised countries in recent years. As governments move to see their operations managed other than simply administered, they are looking for ways to provide new management...

... Local economy Management development Nigeria Public sector Training Organisation of Public Management Education in Africa's Crisis Situation Lessons of a Nigerian Experience Victor Ayeni Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Lessons of a Nigerian...

... have to achieve objectives through the management of work and the management of people. Although historically emphasis has been placed on controlling, planning and coordinating skills, it is actually people skills that decide between a good and poor manager[3, p. 30]. Management Development...

... fashionable approaches. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Action Learning Management Development Management Education Nothing New in Management Development by Graham Robinson Consultant, Organisation and Management Development Nothing New in Management Development 5 This article tells a story...