More people are preferring advisory to executive roles, and organisations are beginning to suffer from a lack of candidates for what is increasingly seen as the thankless task of management. This trend is being encouraged by mistaken management development practices and views of the managerial...

The context in which business is conducted worldwide is changing radically and is creating new types of global business enterprises, as well as management attitudes and practices. Consequently, a new style of management has emerged using “geopolitical” concepts as a theoretical foundation...

The article considers the present trends occurring in the field of management development. One of the biggest problems today is the lack of a systemmatic approach to developmental needs. Practitioners and researchers are now considering the improvement of the design of management development...

A five‐stage process model of training is presented which integrates research concerning the transfer, evaluation and institutionalisation of training. The model is designed to enhance the on‐the‐job evaluations of training effectiveness by following up on negative reactions, using...

Since 1983, the School of Business Administration, the University of Western Ontario, has been offering an annual two‐week management development programme in Kenya. The programme is described — how it began, why it was done, details of the classes and course contents. The problem of...