A new setting for management
Abstract
The Rubber and Plastics Processing ITB has published an interesting statement on what it refers to as the seven issues underlying modern management. It is contained in their publication MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT: OPTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES, April 1977. By kind permission of the Board we reproduce these seven issues in full. This statement offers one convenient summary of the new approach to management which has come about over the past decade or so. What is interesting is that a training board should have taken the initiative in producing a simplified version of this new setting for management and should be urging its member companies to take suitable action to help managers to meet the new obligations placed upon them. To some extent this type of statement represents a milestone. For the first few years after their formation, round about 1964, training boards were not so sure that they were in the business of management development at all. At a later stage, about five years later, they decided they were but played it cool in the sense that they saw their function as training to make traditional and current management practices work more efficiently and to work newcomers to management into the status quo. Now this board, along with some of the others, sees itself as under an obligation to improve and up‐date the business of management itself and to play a leadership role in seeing new principles widely adopted. In one sense it represents an admirable display of self‐confidence on the part of the Board; in another sense it represents a move away from training for maintenance of the status quo towards using training as an instrument of change.
Citation
(1977), "A new setting for management", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 9 No. 7, pp. 290-291. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003617
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1977, MCB UP Limited