Journal of Management Development: Volume 12 Issue 1

Management Development in Arab Countries: The Challenges of the 1990s

Hamid S. Atiyyah

Assesses the future of management development (MD) in Arabcountries in the 1990s. Interprets developments in the political,economic and organizational fields to support an…

Developing the Influential Manager: Experiences with Deans of Business Schools

J. Michael McDonald, J. Bernard Keys

The ability to make quantum leaps in changing organizations isbecoming a survival need for both managers and their organizations.Managers are needed who can build networks to…

Management Development Evaluation and Effectiveness

Alison Smith

Suggests that management development evaluation is fraught withproblems as the relationship between cause and effect is impossible toprove when the subjects are human beings and…

Understanding the Human Aspects of Flexible Manufacturing Systems through Management Development

Atul Gupta, Injazz J. Chen, Walter O. Rom

Empirically examines the relative importance of technical andorganizational factors in the implementation of flexible manufacturingsystems (FMS). Identifies a list of eight…

″Building Managers from the Inside Out!″ ‐Developing Managers through Competency‐based Action Learning

Barry Smith

Reflects on the practical experience of the author in introducingcompetency‐based action learning into Australian public and privatesector organizations. Contains a series of…

Battling the Rapids

Michael G. Winston

Explores the similarities between a captain and his crew on shipand the various strands of management. This is set out in an allegoricaland interesting way, which makes for easy…

Management Development Assistance for Poland ‐A Playground for Western Consultants?

Stefan Kwiatkowski, Patricia Sanders

Western management development assistance (MDA) is being viewedwith scepticism in Poland – a scepticism fuelled by the rapidproliferation of MDA programmes which sometimes compete…

Transporting Management Training into Poland: Some Surprises and Disappointments

John N. Yanouzas, Sotos D. Boukis

Culture has an effect on efforts at management training anddevelopment. Experiential exercises have cultural values embedded inthem. Transporting training exercises across…