A major concern facing multinational corporations in the 1990s is how to prepare managers to operate effectively within another culture. Unfortunately, many corporations seldom provide cross‐cultural management training because it is considered unnecessary or ineffective by top management....

Fundamental changes in the business environment dramatically accentuate the importance of corporate learning. Learning as a competive advantage requires organizations to adopt a new view of education for general management. The new paradigm focuses on anticipatory learning rather than...

In designing consultant‐driven management development interventions, personality issues typically are viewed as moderating variables, if they are considered at all. Reports on two “action‐research” oriented, team‐building interventions, based on Jungian theory as operationalized by the...

Workforce diversity, experiential as well as cultural, has presented human resource development (HRD) professionals with opportunities as well as unique challenges. Describes such an opportunity, the design of a management training programme, to address specific goals identified by an...

A specific decision support system, DSS manager, based on a computerized simulation business game was developed to teach executives how to make decisions following the new rules of market driven Polish economics. Describes the concept of using this “tailor‐made” DSS to help both senior and...

During the 1980s, a significant management shift occurred in organizations which generally were recognized as being globally competitive. More and more these organizations were transforming their traditional Taylor‐based management strategies into total quality management (TQM) approaches to...

Posits that every enterprise must institutionalize its workplace learning systems and opportunities in such a way that it radiates what it has already achieved and from this moves on to realize its full potential – in short, the enterprise itself is the key. Examines in successive chapters:...

TRW and the American business sector in general is faced with a crisis that is not only a financial crisis. We are faced with increasing competition and are questioning our ability to respond. We have identified the problem, we have analysed the competition, and now we understand why their...

Discusses Australian postgraduate management training needs in the light of the obsolescence of current management development technology. Reports on a pilot study into perceptions within industry and higher education of what is needed for future courses. Academics emphasized content, and...

The growth of telecommuting is occurring at an ever‐expanding rate and bringing with it the challenge to organizations to enhance development opportunities for both telecommuters and their managers. Reports a survey of the use of telecommuting by a sample of 91 companies among the top 1,000...