Table of contents
Organisational Improvement in Mobil Oil
A.M. BarrattYou are all aware of the difficulties in obtaining management commitment of the right type for implementing management development and training plans in any organisation. The…
Developing Middle Managers in Shrinking Organisations
John W. HuntThe central concern of this paper is managers in the middle who are hierarchically suppressed by new systems from above and squeezed by new technologies from below. They represent…
Upgrading Management Development Programmes: A Fragmented or Co‐operative Effort?
Milan KubrIn meetings and conferences the participants are happy to learn of management development innovations promoted by the leaders of the profession, usually in the form of new types…
Management Development as the Key to Organisation Renewal
Gordon LippittThe development of greater numbers of more competent managers, and their successful management of human resources, has been made urgently necessary for business, industry and…
Are Management Education Programmes Unmanageable?
Chris HallManagement is what managers do, and managers do a multitude of different things, at a number of different levels and in a variety of different ways. It is not surprising…
Learning Style and Learning Skills
A.C. MumfordI want to start with some statements about the context for management development which I expect to be relatively uncontentious, before I move on to the proposition which will…
Who Needs Creativity?
Vincent NolanIf you ask managers, “How much do you need creative skills in your organisation?” you tend to get answers like “Not much”, or “To some extent, in specialist areas like R and D or…
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- Associate Professor Magnus Larsson