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...

This article argues that analyses of causes of some ineffectiveness in the education and training of managers have been incomplete, and that some potential solutions have been insufficiently recognised, co‐ordinated and implemented. It is necessary to give greater attention to the learning...