In a lecture given in 1981 by Professor Lyman Porter examining the successful and unsuccessful promotion bids by management executives, he stated that:

Relatively little attention seems to be placed in the literature on the bases by which organisational consultants actually organise and follow through their management and manager development work. Yet effective influencing rests in part on the consultants themselves understanding their own...

The first reference to what has since become known as action learning was by Revans in October 1945; it was in a report upon the future of the British coalmining industry issued by the Mining Association of Great Britain. He recommended setting up a staff college for the industry, at which the field...

A common experience of tutors of post graduate management courses is the wide range of backgrounds, attributes, qualifications, experience and competence of course members. In this article the authors explore the nature of this mixed ability, seek to identify the challenges it presents in course...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest the existence and nature of management culture. In particular, attention needs to be given to management subcultures. The norms, beliefs and values of these subcultures have consequences for management behaviour, individuals, for the organisation as a...

Preparation For Change. The Company I am the managing director of a business which distributes solid fuel, oil, lubricants and allied products. I own nearly half the shares, whilst my brother, a practising accountant who acts part time as our chairman, owns the rest.

There is a crisis facing management education today. The importance of effective management in the development of profitable enterprises and a sound economy is recognised, as is also the contribution that management education can make in helping to develop more effective managers. However, the...

Managers need to be numerate as well as literate. Courses aimed at increasing numeracy often gain very mixed receptions from participants; dissatisfaction being a common reaction. Negative attitudes towards the subject matter and poor mathematical ability are two major problems faced by...

A major finding of a symposium held in Abu Dhabi in 1979 by the Stanford Research Institute was that the major challenge in the Gulf States in the 1980s would be a lack of managerial talent. This factor is now exercising the thoughts of many commercial, industrial and financial enterprises and...