Top Managers Claim their Right to Management Development: An Exciting Discovery in Local Government

Abstract

The middle‐aged Chief Architect who heads the massive Architects Department of a London borough was bitterly bemoaning how his circle of professional friends, as they advanced in their chosen professions, continued to act as expert professionals: “Barristers become QCs and take the most technically demanding briefs, surgeons graduate to brain surgery or organ transplants and personally perform the most technically demanding operations. I'm at the top of my profession as an architect—and what do you think I do? I sign letters!”

Citation

Harries, S. and Casey, D. (1984), "Top Managers Claim their Right to Management Development: An Exciting Discovery in Local Government", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053548