Despite rapid expansion in provision of outdoor management development (OMD), there is a lack of empirical evidence to support the efficacy of the learning process and crucially, its transfer to the workplace. Prompted by the dearth of research into the linkage between programme aims, the...

A framework for the optimum development and transfer of conflict‐handling skills via outdoor management development (OMD) programmes has already been presented (Part I, Journal of Management Development , Vol. 23 No. 7). A qualitative study with ten OMD providers confirmed the framework to be...

Analyses, critically, the interest in “knowledge work” and the “knowledge age”. Arguing that definitions of “knowledge work” and predictions regarding the future trajectories of knowledge organizations are characterized by confusion and ambiguity, calls for a quite different form of...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss a framework for analysing the learning and transfer of conflict handling skills via leadership development programmes. The framework links the role of knowledge in skill acquisition to the process of learning transfer to suggest how different methodologies...

The development of a new skills mix must be seen as part of an organisational change management strategy. It is only credible when it adds value to what an organisation does. The role of baseline skills is examined together with the failure of competency‐based management philosophies to set...

Organisations need to look at what proactivity is, how it can be achieved, and the problems likely to be encountered in developing proactive staff. Proactive behaviour is examined, together with its links to achieving competitive advantage, The need to allow staff to design and redesign their...

A growing awareness is developing with regard to the need for a highly skilled workforce to maintain and improve the UK′s competitive position. This realisation has developed hand‐in‐hand with fears over the demographic changes anticipated within the population, namely the decline in the...

Critiques the visions of management gurus in comparison to the measures which they offer to “deliver” them. Argues that organization development requires a qualitatively different look at workers and work going beyond behavioural prescription. Presents the concept of the new skills mix...