Towards Effective Practice where Management Development is a Recent Concern

A theoretical framework is proposed based on the events within a study group, “Management Development in Areas where the Concern is Recent”. Using a phenomenological perspective a theoretical framework from the process of development of the group is derived. The group found it difficult to agree a definition of “area of recent concern” as it applies to types of actual or potential client system where management development is a relatively new concept or practice. Cautionary restraint is provided to anyone about to embark on management development in new areas who has not considered that fundamentally new issues and problems may be encountered.