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Management Development (Human Resource Management in Action S.) ISBN: 0631198660 ISBN13: 9780631198666 Management Development (Human Resource Management in Action S.) By: Diana Winstanley ; Jean Woodall Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Format: Paperback Our Price: 25.10 Discount: 7% RRP: 26.99

Management Development is a comprehensive, analytic and up-to-date text covering all the key elements of this critically important human resource activity. For HRM students at all levels, including those on IPD programmes, and for human resource managers it provides a framework for understanding the core concepts that both reviews best current practice, and questions it. The book looks at what is meant by management development from the perspective of the organization and the individual manager. It gives an authoritative overview of:Strategic integration and career development. Analysis of managerial work roles and identification of development needs. Managerial learning. The differing needs of diverse managerial groups from women managers, technical specialists, international managers and board members to small business managers.Written by two leading academics with wide consulting experience this new text gives a definitive and critical introduction to the field. There can be no doubt that management development is one of the issues critical to corporate competitiveness and students in both human resource and general management studies will find this an indispensable guide to the key issues.


Contents:

List of Figures.List of Tables.List of Exhibits.Acknowledgements.Part I: The Purpose of Management Development

1

Management Development: Purposes, Processes and Prerequisites

2

Management Development and Organizational Strategy: Justifying and Evaluating the Business Focus

3

Supporting Individual Managerial Careers

Part II: Identifying Development Needs

4

Understanding Managerial Work, Roles and Competences

5

Methodologies for Analysing Managerial Roles and Competences

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Analysing Individual Development Needs

Part III: Management Development Interventions

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The Managerial Learning Process and its Context

8

Using Formal Off the Job Management Development

9 Work-based Management Development Methods: Informal and Incidental

Part IV: Meeting Different Management Development Needs

10

Management Development for Professionals

11

Management Development for Women

12

Management Development for International Managers

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Executive Development and the Top Team

Index.


Brief Description:

This text covers all the key elements of the important human resource activity of management development. For HRM students at all levels and for human resource managers, it provides a framework for understanding the core concepts that both reviews best current practice and questions it.

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