Management Development: Perspectives from Research and Practice

by Bailey; Diane

• ISBN13: 9780415396028
• ISBN10: 0415396026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 4/13/2007
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recognizing a significant need to continually update the current body of knowledge on management development with the latest innovations in high quality research and practice in various parts of the globe, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the state of research and practice in management development. Hill and Stewart provide examples of both management development research and practice to inform and stimulate future research and to encourage the use of research-based practice in organizations. In particular, the book: Explores and assesses the various and varying meanings attached to the term ?management development? and its use Provides a range of examples of research and practice to inform and support the teaching of management development as a subject Provides a resource to HR practitioners and line managers to develop research-based and critically analyzed management development interventions. Drawing on the expertise of awide array of contributors, the term ?management development? is explored and critically analyzed both conceptually and practically. This impressive volume is essential reading for students and academics across a range of subdisciplines including human recources development, human resources management and leadership.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xii
Notes on contributors	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxii
Researching and practising management development	p. 1
Parameters of management development	p. 5
Corporate technocrats or world stewards: what's the point of management development?	p. 9
Management development: a critical discursive approach	p. 23
Strategic management development	p. 40
Management development for unemployed managers: the South Yorkshire 'Management Update Programme'	p. 60
Comparative insights	p. 75
Management training and development in France: will elitism give way to strategic development?	p. 79
Towards evidence-based management development	p. 95
A stakeholder approach to the study of management education	p. 120
Raising future leaders	p. 134
Impact of management development	p. 155
Management by co-creation	p. 159
The impact of emotion management training on the 'shifting sands' of the psychological contract	p. 177
Management development for women entrepreneurs in the small business sector of the Vietnamese economy	p. 196
Leading by learning: an integrated approach to middle management training	p. 211
Aspects of management development	p. 227
Multi-source feedback and management development: managers' discourse on context and development intentions	p. 231
The dynamics of organizational commitment and management development	p. 251
Writing, reading and reason: the 'Three Rs' of manager learning	p. 271
Leadership development: a critical examination	p. 285
Clinical leadership in the NHS: evaluating change through action learning	p. 302
Editors' conclusion	p. 317
Management development: the holy grail of HRD?	p. 319
Index	p. 329
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