Transporting Management Training into Poland: Some Surprises and Disappointments
Abstract
Culture has an effect on efforts at management training and development. Experiential exercises have cultural values embedded in them. Transporting training exercises across cultural boundaries represents a challenge full of opportunities and pitfalls. Two American‐made training exercises – a survival exercise and an inter‐unit conflict exercise – were used in a training session composed of Polish academics, who are preparing to enter management development, and training in post‐communist Poland. Polish culture presents both obstacles to experiential learning and opportunities for developing management skills. Comparative analysis is used to assess the match between training method and culture.
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Citation
Yanouzas, J.N. and Boukis, S.D. (1993), "Transporting Management Training into Poland: Some Surprises and Disappointments", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621719310024417
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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