... 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. In addition, with so many changes occurring in the public sector, the need for excellence in management has never been greater. So how can...

...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...

.... As such, those who attend training courses are not necessarily those who most need it but those who are most adept at behind‐the‐scenes political patronage. The other noteworthy characteristic of training is that it is often limited to management development (Akinnusi, 1989; Kamoche, 1992). This practice...

... of improvement. It was the time when Britons were becoming conscious that the economies of the countries we had defeated in the Second World War were at our shoulder and threatening to overtake us. © Company 1996 Central government Civil Service Management development Organizational change...

... were management advisers to the Indian Railway Board, the directors of the railways management training institutions at Puneh and Varoda and senior officials from other public sector departments. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Management development Self‐development The art...

...′ search for quantifiable behavioural outcomes. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Australia Management development Organizational change Privatization Public administration Public sector Until now, intellectual discourse on the management education needs of the Australian public sector has been...

... and that recent trends in the UK to strait‐jacket management education within a single generic framework are counter‐productive. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Education Local government Management development National Health Service Public sector Social Services United Kingdom Developing Public...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 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...

... 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...

...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...

... accordingly, this would lead to increased job satisfaction and managerial effectiveness. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Africa Management development Public sector Research Skills IJPSM 3,2 26 Managerial Skills for Senior Managers Farhad Analoui University of Bradford, UK Over the last two decades we...

... 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...