Strengthening management education and development with non‐prescriptive guidelines for the management/ leadership aspect of decisions

Explores the authors’ suggestion for creating a bridge between management/leadership theory and practical application. The suggestion rests on six foundations: non‐prescriptive starter guidelines which users adapt to their personal style or use as foundation for guidelines of their own; a comprehensive model of management/leadership which rests on three pillars: the organization’s need for control (or co‐ordination), competence (of all stakeholders) and climate; emphasis on the two separate aspects of every managerial decision ‐ the functional and the management/leadership considerations; the distinction between goals and action steps which has fairly significant implications for the motivational ambience; the application of the distinction between importance and urgency to goal selection and priority setting; and the separation of needs, in Maslow’s Hierarchy, into those which can be satisfied with psychological rewards and those which require tangible rewards.