Management Development Review: Volume 5 Issue 2
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AUDITING YOUR PERSONAL POWER
Helga DrummondPower is generally regarded as the key to managerial achievement,if only in enabling users to get things done. Posits powerlessness as amajor source of managerial inefficiency…
MINTZBERG ON STRATEGIES AND MANAGEMENT
Henry Mintzberg, renowned for his work on managerial behaviour, isinterviewed. As a pragmatist, he talks about strategies and managementto Bruce Lloyd, Head of the Management…
ARE YOU IN THE RIGHT JOB?
Charles Margerison, Dick McCannGood management practice assumes a capacity for accurateself‐analysis in respect of one′s job and performance. Yet it issurprising how long it takes some managers to acquire this…
CASES FOR WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT
In the wake of the launch of Opportunity 2000 in Autumn 1991, whichbinds signatory companies to affirm and implement goals and action plansfor women at all levels, focuses on five…
WORKING WITH MEN: BIG BOYS DO CRY
Nigel SmithMen are still cast as the macho breadwinners and women in a caring,supportive role. This gender conditioning has become part of the companyculture and tends to perpetuate the…
STUDENT EXPECTATIONS ON THE OPEN BUSINESS SCHOOL′S MBA
Jenny LewisThe Open Business School recently awarded its first MBAs from aprogramme first launched in 1989. Over 4,000 part‐time MBA students arenow under its aegis, many of them senior…
HAVE MANAGERS CHANGED IN THE LAST TEN YEARS?
Roger Mansfield, Michael PooleChange is the only certainty of the management function. Comparesthe managers of 1980 with those of 1990 from the viewpoint of gender,age, nature of employment, management…
WILTSHIRE PRIORITIES IN WOMEN′S DEVELOPMENT
Karen LloydWhilst most major management and training initiatives tend to focuson natural regional centres or on large urban areas, Wiltshire TEC isproactively working on women′s issues…
HOW SECURE IS YOUR IT?
Karen GarvinA recent survey has found that computing and IT are essential foreffective management, yet costly security breaches, losses and theft arewidespread. Urges corporate users to…