Journal of Management Development: Volume 24 Issue 3

A gender‐based categorization for conflict resolution

Sheryl D. Brahnam, Thomas M. Margavio, Michael A. Hignite, Tonya B. Barrier, Jerry M. Chin

As the workforce becomes increasingly diversified, it becomes increasingly important for managers to understand the conflict resolution attitudes brought to information systems…

The evolving role of strategic management development

Paul Brown

To validate conceptual frameworks for strategic management development. Also, to test the hypothesis that the objectives and design of a strategic management development programme…

Entrepreneurship among graduates: towards a measured response

Roy McLarty

The entrepreneurial potential of graduates has risen in the national agenda and has been attracting the interest of policy makers, educationists and development agencies in recent…

The assessment of formal management development: A method, a baseline and the need to incorporate learning styles

John J. Rodwell

To assess the impact of a course on the development of management competencies for students over the duration of the course, by examining changes in the competencies of the…

Perceived job characteristics and internal work motivation: An exploratory cross‐cultural analysis of the motivational antecedents of hotel workers in Mauritius and Australia

Darren Lee‐Ross

Currently, a gap exists in the area of cross‐cultural research in organisations. Moreover, there is a consensus that many models of organisational behaviour have a Western…

Enhancing managers'supervisory effectiveness: a promising model

Edwin G. Ralph

To describe the contextual supervision (CS) model, and to invite interested researchers to study its effects in a wider range of applications across a variety of management fields.