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

Abstract

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.

Citation

Rausch, E. and Stark, E. (1998), "Strengthening management education and development with non‐prescriptive guidelines for the management/ leadership aspect of decisions", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 10 No. 6/7, pp. 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1108/13665629810236327