Three different aspects of effectiveness in management development are drawn together: effective managerial behaviour, effective learning processes and development processes emphasising effectiveness.

Too little attention has been paid to the central process — learning — necessary for managerial skills to be developed. The article describes the techniques and processes used by the few people who give explicit attention to helping managers to improve their learning skills. It describes...

Two reports, “The Making of Managers” by Charles Handy and “The Making of British Managers” by John Constable and Roger McCormick, were published in April 1987. In a commentary on both reports, it is suggested that they are insufficiently concerned with the total management development...