The task of intervening to increase leadership effectiveness is to help learners become aware of counterproductive reasoning (defensive reasoning occasioned by threat, as opposed to productive reasoning) and to educate them in additional methods of reasoning and action. Two cases which have been...

Both environment and learning process must be planned to maximise their special contributions to managerial competence. Kolb's Experiential Learning Model provides a framework for matching each managerial competence with the training most likely to instil it. Optimally, student and teacher will...

A review of the literature defining managerial skill draws the conclusion that the key to future management development lies in identifying the competencies required for individual managers' jobs and developing programmes to meet these, within the context of organisational goals and politics....

Three different aspects of effectiveness in management development are drawn together: effective managerial behaviour, effective learning processes and development processes emphasising effectiveness.

Experientially based learning designs are examined along with their various strengths, weaknesses and applications. The four key underlying considerations to choosing an experientially based learning design are: the learning objective, the learner, the facilitator and the environment.

Managerial stress exists and has to be coped with. The author describes a study that demonstrates that cue‐controlled relaxation can be applied to groups of managers to reduce psychological and physical stress. The study involved 36 middle managers with stress problems who were randomly...

This article examines practical approaches to management learning and development that come with job changes from one area of the organisation to another. Specific examples and a checklist provide guidelines for considering such job moves as management development experiences.

The authors describe the use of an action research approach in designing a management development scheme which successfully commands the support of line management. The client was a large company, which had previously operated management development on an ad hoc basis, but had come to see a more...

Most organised development efforts in developing countries have historically focused on health care, food sufficiency, infrastructure, or technical and vocational training. However, the need to enhance concurrently managerial and organisational capabilities has been increasingly recognised. This...

The current world recession highlights the widespread difficulty government and business leaders have in managing national industrial economies to use existing technology, plant and equipment, and most importantly, human resources. Unemployment in the OECD countries rose to 29.3 million in 1982,...