The selection and training of managers is hampered by the poverty of our language for describing the differences in managerial jobs. This article gives an account of some of the initial findings of a research project, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, which aimed to classify the...

The beliefs that managers hold about managing are likely to influence their reception of management training. Managers' beliefs about what it is important for them to do, about how they should manage, how well they do manage, and about the desirability or possibility of changing how they manage,...

Considers the extent to which one organization through rationalization and redundancy programmes has violated its psychological contracts with its middle manager employees by removing the prospect of a traditional career. Offers a review of the issues raised in the literature on careers and the...