To practically help managers improve both their own performance and that of the organisational unit, a “Back to Basics” formula is useful hinging on training responsibility, individual and unit motivation, and clarification of both management and unit roles. The author's experience of a...

An outline of the skills and knowledge required, and the problems to be tackled by tomorrow's managers, posing questions as to the new relationship between management development and the organisation's future planning.

Managers involved in international business should be concerned with the cultural context of communication. A contrasting of the way the Americans and Japanese perceive reality and thus relate within their individual societies, highlights the danger inherent if one chooses to exist within a...

The challenges of the future require a new discipline, Managerial Futuristics, the role of which is to provide a useful framework for decision making by developing reasonable assumptions about the future, these based on assessment of present conditions, identification of future dangers and...

The Team Management Index, a 60‐item self‐completion questionnaire, generates a 3,000‐word profile (after the answers have been fed into a computer program) which outlines the individual's work preferences in the areas of decision making, team building, leadership, information management,...

Applications for MBA programmes in North America are on the decline due to declining budgets, declining faculty supply, and criticism of the real value of the MBA qualification. Radical restructuring in the face of these problems has produced expansion of the Executive MBA (now offered by over...

Japanese companies encourage a one‐to‐one apprenticeship style training, in which social activities form an integral part, loyalty being slowly nurtured through the junior manager's relationship with his immediate supervisor. Examples of staff development within automobile, steel and food...

China is embarked on a state‐led programme of institutional experimentation and learning. Informal data collected during reciprocal visits by Australian and Chinese management educators note that two fundamental areas of reform are being undertaken at enterprise level; the instigation of...

A review of the relevant literature and case study analysis draws the conclusion that a skills approach to leadership makes it possible to describe and provide training in the core skills required in a wide variety of managerial situations. Such skills are most effectively acquired through...

Women's life patterns, balanced between paid and unpaid work and the sharing of time in and out of employment, are already representing the future — and the time has come for men to conform to the female “norm” rather than the reverse. Emphasis on common humanity, and judging in which...