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Introduction The purpose of this monograph is to describe a practical process for the assessment of management development in organisations. This aim is achieved through the examination both of a framework for looking at management development in practice, and a specific procedure—the Management Development Audit—by which organisations may obtain data of direct use in the assessment of their management development systems, analysed in a way which will encourage recommendations and strategies for change. Although the monograph focuses specifically on the Management Development Audit, it is also intended to stimulate the reader's thinking in terms of examination and reflection upon their own management development systems. This may be best achieved by reflecting carefully upon the kinds of questions and issues to which the Management Development Audit addresses itself.

A major function of personnel management is to help individuals and organisations cope with change. Managerial career development provides a practical example of this concern as effective action requires an understanding of how individuals and organisations initiate and are affected by change. These changes can also be considered from the more theoretical viewpoints of organisational mobility. The practical concerns of the personnel manager and the theoretical models of the student of organisational mobility should both benefit from the two‐way flow of insights, and some of these potential links are explored in this article.