The contribution that the function of management makes to economic growth and development is very difficult to assess. Similarly, the role of education in the improvement of management is not beyond debate, unless it is defined so broadly as to include all the other possible avenues in addition...

This article outlines the factors Chief Executive Officers consider critical in the development of their own careers. In a study of British CEOs five major factors were identified: interpersonal influencing skills; responsibility for a business sector; a need to achieve results; early leadership...

The old adage that management is “getting things done through other people” puts the emphasis quite rightly on the human resource aspect, but management also involves objectives, the acquisition and allocation of resources to achieve them, and the environmental constraints both within and...

IBM, General Motors, RCA, Westinghouse, Control Data, Union Carbide, Tektronics, Lockheed, Northrup Aircraft, Babcock and Wilcox, Waters Associates, Solar Turbines, and American Express are operating effective quality circle efforts. Companies like Motorola, Champion International, TRW, and...

Increased market segmentation is likely to be an emerging trend in management education in Australia. To date management education has been “production oriented”, concentrating on functional areas such as accounting, marketing and human resource management. The formal, institutionalised...

What's Going on at Buckingham? Is it rash or rational? Crazy or calculated? The decision to launch an entirely independent, new type of management school at university level may seem more than a shade imprudent, especially in today's uncertain economic climate. Yet the Management Centre from...

This article outlines a particular approach to skill development which has been found to render positive results in a variety of management and interactive skills programmes. The approach centres on the development of specific skills for specific purposes. Three situations where it has been used...

Health and Managerial Success. To succeed in a competitive world, you have to be more than just alive. It is evident, to the point of being axiomatic, that adequate physical and mental vigour is a key requirement for managerial success. Why confirm the obvious? Such, no doubt is the reason for...

Why is it that when you present a report to some managers, they read it through in great detail whilst others scarcely read it at all?

How often have you witnessed the design and administration of a training programme because the “manager” of a department thought training was needed? Or, the training department offered courses because it was “traditional” and the organisation needs to train because other organisations...