This paper describes elements of the policies employed for identifying high potentials in their organizational context. A set of systematic research questions has been used to conceive a structured questionnaire to empirically investigate the kind of high potential competencies that companies...

Purpose – To investigate different aspects of the development policies of high potentials and their relationships with organizational characteristics in a set of Belgian companies. Design/methodology/approach – A set of research questions has been used to conceive a structured questionnaire...

Describes the approach concerning management development in a fast‐growing international telecommunication company trying to survive the multimedia revolution, namely Alcatel Telecom. Calling itself the hi‐speed company, Alcatel tries to profile the organisation externally, simultaneously...