Journal of Management Development: Volume 5 Issue 4

Centres of Excellence in Management Development

Bernard Keys

Some of the unique changes impacting on management development throughout the world are explored and some of the creative responses which have been developed by several centres of…

Meeting the Merger Integration Challenge with Management Development

Robert Fulmer

Mergers and managerial development are reshaping the contemporary corporate world. Management development can be used to reduce resistance to the merger and assist in the process…

Management Development in Manufacturing Industries

Rod L. Boyes, Ronald G. Greenwood, George P. Lephardt

Human resource management activities in major American corporations have changed significantly during the past five to seven years, both in scope and direction. Many large…

Managing Organisation Fit in Times of Tumult

Peter W. Stonebraker

The key to effective management in times of tumult is organisation fit — the integration or congruence of the organisation. Tumult increases the need to manage the two major areas…

What One Manager Learned in “The Looking Glass” and How He Learned It

Robert E. Kaplan

The Looking Glass simulation was developed by behavioural scientists at the Centre for Creative Leadership, North Carolina. Looking Glass, Inc is one of the best known examples of…

How One Organisation Uses “The Looking Glass, Inc.”

Sally Johnston

The experience of the First Union Corporation bank using “The Looking Glass, Inc”, a “catalyst experience” in a four‐day management development programme, is described. The bank…

Management Development at the Japan‐American Institute of Management Science

Alfred G. Edge, Mike French

One of the major reasons the Japanese have been so successful in business is their ability to take a concept or idea from another culture and improve on it in a uniquely Japanese…

Integrating Executive Development Into A Total Educational Philosophy: Brazil

W. Jack Duncan, P.C. Motta, L.M.R. Dias, P.F. Bocater, P.A. Tomei

Despite its past economic success Brazil faces a serious shortage of experienced managers to plan, organise and direct its course into the future. Previously it has relied on…

The Customer First/Faculty Last Approach to Excellence

Gordon Wills

Action learning on a company‐wide basis requires the continuing and determined commitment of the topmost line managers if it is to succeed. Action learning as an approach to…