Mole

Managing Management Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

* How important is management development to organizations? * How can it be managed so as to provide most benefit? * Why do management development activities frequently miss their mark? Graham Mole presents a practitioner's approach to management development in organizations. There is a strong emphasis on the practical applications of development techniques such as appraisal, assessment and 360 degree feedback, and vignettes and examples are drawn both from the author's own experience and from others' research. Management development is a well-trodden and increasingly lucrative field in which large numbers of managers, developers, consultants, academic institutions and others play. It deserves to be done well; but Managing Management Development highlights critically the differences between management development as it is commonly construed and packaged and an approach which properly takes account of relevant organizational theory and research. It is argued that one needs to understand organizational power systems, business requirements, managerial jobs and individual characteristics in order to successfully design, build and integrate management development initiatives. This book poses highly pertinent and challenging questions both for those involved or interested in management development in their own and others' organizations, and for students of business and organizational behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Managing Work and Organization
• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780335201341
• ISBN-10: 0335201342
• Artikelnr.: 33258734

Autorenporträt

Graham Mole is Director of Human Resources Development for Willis, a global risk management firm, where he is primarily engaged in senior management assessment, development and succession planning. After leaving college in 1969 he began his career as a management trainee with Unilever, and has also worked in the mining and pharmaceutical industries. In 1993 he obtained an MSc in Organizational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London, where he based the subject of his research project on management competencies. He is now working towards a PhD thesis at Birkbeck on how managers handle conflict at work. He has been involved academically in training and development as a tutor, external examiner and recently as a critical reader for the Open University's 'Managing Human Resources' programme.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Management development
long history, short change?
The management development agenda
Management development needs 1
the organizational level
Management development needs 2
the job level
Management development needs 3
the individual level
Managers learning
some useful theories, some questionable rhetoric
Selecting, designing and evaluating management development interventions
Some alternative perspectives, some final reflections
Appendix
accessing and using competencies for management development
References
Index.