Journal of Management Development: Volume 6 Issue 5

Integrating Management Development into a Large‐Scale System‐Wide Change Programme

Larry E. Pate, Warren R. Nielsen

A life insurance firm undertakes a major programme to integrate management development with organisational development as a change strategy to impact on all levels of employees…

Life Span of Management Development Institutes

Robert Grandford Wright

The characteristics of organisational growth and decline are described, ending in demise or renewal. A “case study” then illustrates these stages — entrepreneurial, maturation…

The Keys to Successful Goal Achievement

Timothy L. Lawrence, Brian H. Kleiner

Activity and self‐confidence are key elements of management success. High achievers are recognisably more open to choices and search for more efficient ways of doing things. True…

Helping Managers Learn to Learn: Using Learning Styles and Learning Biography

Alan Mumford

Too little attention has been paid to the central process — learning — necessary for managerial skills to be developed. The article describes the techniques and processes used by…

Management by Degrees: A Case Study in Management Development

James Espey, Pauline Batchelor

International Distillers & Vintners (UK) Ltd and the International Management Centre from Buckingham, together devised an MBA programme that was custom‐made for the company's…

Trends in Management Training and Executive Education: The Revolution Continues

James F. Bolt

A recent survey of major American firms confirms that the trend to increased management training is gaining momentum. Courses relating to strategic planning and implementation…