Career Development International: Volume 1 Issue 2

Recruitment and development of up‐and‐coming managers in Germany and Japan ‐ an exemplary comparison

Juergen F. Deller, Ute Flunkert

Presents a German viewpoint of the approach chosen by large Japanese enterprises to recruit and develop future managers. After a short introduction to the Japanese educational…

Future‐mapping: a practical way to map out the future and achieve what you want

Bill Phillips

Describes future‐mapping, an innovative process for creative strategic thinking and decision making. The idea consists of imagining already living in an ideal, successful future…

Towards a team‐based approach

Richard G. Rowe

Many organizations in Australia, in both public and private sectors, are introducing organization structures and cultures which consolidate the major technological and structural…

Managing organizational change: what you don’t know might hurt you

Allan H. Church, Wes Siegal, Miriam Javitch, Janine Waclawski, W. Warner Burke

Managers and executives need to have a better framework for thinking about and understanding organizational change. Presents a summary of research, based on data from 1,840…

Accountancy graduate selection procedures ‐ a critical analysis

Elizabeth Gammie

The importance of selection in the accounting environment is of particular relevance as accounting is a service function which relies heavily on human resources, and its future…

The stakeholder approach to the firm: a practical way forward or a rhetorical flourish?

Leslie Hamilton, Thomas Clarke

Discusses the recent interest in a stakeholder approach as an alternative approach to competitive individualism in organizations. Examines the economic philosophy which underpins…

Changing roles or starting a new job

Trevor Pullen

A personal view by a “new” managing director who describes his own experiences in taking on the challenge of a very different dual role in a new organization. He joined GHN, a…

I was upward appraised… and survived!

Owen Jones

Reflects on the personal experience of using upward appraisal in Barclays Home Finance. Explains how upward appraisal was introduced and the underlying principles. Covers the…