Assesses the future of management development (MD) in Arab countries in the 1990s. Interprets developments in the political, economic and organizational fields to support an appreciable increase in the need and demand for MD in these countries. Encourages MD firms to adopt a growth strategy to...

The ability to make quantum leaps in changing organizations is becoming a survival need for both managers and their organizations. Managers are needed who can build networks to funnel diverse views upward from the lower levels where the need for change is often first detected. Describes how a...

Suggests that management development evaluation is fraught with problems as the relationship between cause and effect is impossible to prove when the subjects are human beings and they and their environment are a complex morass of variables. Describes the difficulties of designing an evaluation...

Empirically examines the relative importance of technical and organizational factors in the implementation of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Identifies a list of eight technical and organizational factors. Describes a stepwise regression analysis which was performed with the level of...

Reflects on the practical experience of the author in introducing competency‐based action learning into Australian public and private sector organizations. Contains a series of interviews with graduates of an action learning Masters programme in the Health industry. Suggests that early and...

Explores the similarities between a captain and his crew on ship and the various strands of management. This is set out in an allegorical and interesting way, which makes for easy assimilation of the constitutent parts. Stresses the role of competitiveness and also the eed for continuous...

Western management development assistance (MDA) is being viewed with scepticism in Poland – a scepticism fuelled by the rapid proliferation of MDA programmes which sometimes compete with one another, frequently lack intellectual clarity, and often are short‐sighted. Discusses some of the...

Culture has an effect on efforts at management training and development. Experiential exercises have cultural values embedded in them. Transporting training exercises across cultural boundaries represents a challenge full of opportunities and pitfalls. Two American‐made training exercises –...

In many organizational day‐to‐day situations, effective managers require multidimensional leadership characteristics. They need innovator characteristics to solve crises and to identify and “sell” ew visions to the organization; implementor characteristics to systematically...

Describes the use of a computer simulation to enhance management skills in an Indonesian Master of Management (MM) programme during the spring of 1991. Cultural and language differences presented special problems. Enthusiastic student response and the permanent inclusion of the simulation in the...