Management Development: Strategy and Practice

List of Tables.

List of Exhibits.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: The Purpose of Management Development.

1. Management Development: Purposes, Processes and Prerequisites.

2. Management Development and Organizational Strategy: Justifying and Evaluating the Business Focus.

3. Supporting Individual Managerial Careers.

Part II: Identifying Development Needs.

4. Understanding Managerial Work, Roles and Competences.

5. Methodologies for Analysing Managerial Roles and Competences.

6. Analysing Individual Development Needs.

Part III: Management Development Interventions.

7. The Managerial Learning Process and its Context.

8. Using Formal Off the Job Management Development.

9 Work-based Management Development Methods: Informal and Incidental.

Part IV: Meeting Different Management Development Needs.

10. Management Development for Professionals.

11. Management Development for Women.

12. Management Development for International Managers.

13. Executive Development and the Top Team.

Index.