Journal of Management Development: Volume 13 Issue 9

Tough Challenges: How Big a Learning Gap?

Bryan Smith, Grahame Morphey

Management is as much about tackling tough challenges as it is aboutcreating success. However, there has been no major focus on learningfrom tough challenges and the difficulties…

Using the Outdoors to Facilitate Personal Change in Managers

Donna Burnett, Kim James

Describes an empirical research study focusing on a specific form ofpersonal development for managers – the use of the outdoors. Thisdevelopment activity is believed to enhance…

Management Style as an Element of Management Development Programmes: Is It Worth the Trouble?

Lillian Y. Fok, Stephen M. Crow, Sandra J. Hartman, Alger Moore

Describes a longitudinal study which examined the social style profile(SSP) as a predictive tool for managerial success over a ten‐yearperiod. The SSP has been used extensively in…

Conditions for Internal Entrepreneurship

P.G.W. Jansen, L.L.G.M. van Wees

Numerous organizations find themselves in a “turbulent field”. The greaterthe complexity of their environment, the greater is their externaluncertainty. It is possible to cope…

Managerial Innovation in the Civil Service in Jordan : A Field Study

Na′il A.H.K. Awamleh

Examines the relationship between managerial innovation (dependentvariable) and sex, age, education, organizational level, and length ofservice as independent variables. The…

Training and Development: The Role of Trainers

Farhad Analoui

The changing perception of the nature of managerial jobs has hadprofound implications for management trainers and developers. Somemanagers′ role has evolved from task managers to…