Management Development in the Global Village: Beyond Culture – a Microworld Approach

Abstract

Examines the global organization and its particular management development needs. It proposes that implicit in the idea of global stategy is a model of management based on efficiency. Efficiency is created by a uniformity of approach across national and cultural boundaries. Global managers must also be able to create effective microcultures of unified action worldwide. Describes a management development programme which uses simulation to provide managers with a practice field for creating a unifying cultural framework which can cohere diverse interests around organizational strategy.

Citation

McBride, M. (1992), "Management Development in the Global Village: Beyond Culture – a Microworld Approach", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 11 No. 7, pp. 48-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621719210020638