Table of contents
Gaining Competitive Advantage through Strategic Management Development (SMD)
Sam McClellGlobal competition has forced downsizing and restructuring, producing ashortage in many organizations′ managerial talent base. This deficit hashighlighted an important need to…
Relative Values: Qualification Programmes or Non‐assessed Development?
Peter Simpson, Louise Grisoni, Rodney CoxExplores the differences between two categories of in‐company managementdevelopment programme: those that offer participants a nationallyrecognized qualification and those that…
Outdoor Management Development – Reality or Illusion?
Dominic Irvine, John P. WilsonCritically examines the basis on which outdoor management development(OMD) is founded. Much of the available literature on the subject isanecdotal and serves only to perpetuate an…
Corporate America′s Quest for an Ideal MBA
James P. NeelankavilIdentifies problems facing MBA programmes, the type of executives soughtby businesses, and the roles academic and business institutions need toplay in developing the next…
Training and Development Activities and Career Success of Managerial and Professional Women
Ronald J. Burke, Carol A. McKeenExamines managerial and professional women′s participation in a varietyof education, training and development activities and the usefulness andimpact of such activities…
Towards a Systems Approach to Executive Development
Douglas A. Ready, Albert A. Vicere, Alan F. WhiteThere is a growing awareness among major corporations that executive andorganizational development activities have a very important role to playin the creation of learning‐based…
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0262-1711e-ISSN:
1758-7492ISSN-L:
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- Associate Professor Magnus Larsson