Handbook of Management Development

This text considers the spectrum of management development, covering principles, processes and practice. A constant theme is the need to match management development schemes and activities to the needs of specific organizations and the contributions, though widely differing in their origins, all derive from actual experience and are all concerned with application. Two key features of the book are the attention paid, firstly, to the relationship between management development and managerial effectiveness and secondly, to the way in which new knowledge about how managers learn can be applied. New chapters include one on aligning management development with business strategy, and an illuminating account of an organizational change programme. This revised edition of the Handbook offers an array of information, stimulus and practical guidance that may appeal to management development practitioners, consultants, personnel specialists and indeed anyone concerned with improving managerial effectivness.