Management Development Review: Volume 7 Issue 4
Table of contents
Upstream Thinking in Management
Martin WoodDraws attention to the need for managers to re‐examine the dominantworld view paradigm within which managing currently takes place. Usesthe analogy of a salmon struggling up river…
Towards Self‐managed Appraisal
Mike BellRecounts the experiences of a line manager and consultant, and hisattempts to transform performance appraisal for the benefit of theindividual, manager and organization. Describes…
Tools for a Learning Organization
Michael PearnReviews the development of the concept of the learning organization, anddescribes a project which developed a range of practical tools to beused by trainers and line managers in…
Blocks to Better Management
Tony BallProvides a commentary on the inadequacy of verbal communication betweenmanagers, suggesting that this fosters distrust throughout theorganization. Advocates the need for a new…
Rational Decision Making: Myth or Reality?
Loizos Th. HeracleousConsiders the “rational” decision‐making model and argues that it neitherdescribes actual decision‐making processes nor can be used as anadequate guide to effective decision…
How to Be a Good Coach
Tom BarryArgues that the survival and success of organizations today depends notonly on devolving responsibility to individual employees, but also onthe ability of managers to change their…
A Survivor′s Guide to Workflow
Veronica BrunwinDescribes the new generation of computerized workflow systems – byautomating the flow of documents and procedures throughout anorganization, they can increase the accuracy of…
Why Do Employers Train?: Employment Department Skills and Enterprise Network
Drawing on the findings of an Employment Department survey, considershow the desire for new skills has affected training. Finds a markeddifference in performance between committed…
Management Development in East Anglia
Michael QuayleEstablishes the level, range and scope of current management education,training and development (METD) activity in small and medium‐sizedenterprises and identifies good practice…