The spectral management type inventory (SMTI) is an analytical instrument designed to enable people to identify their personal management style. Examines the reliability and the validity of the SMTI questionnaire and the associations between the different management styles and work‐related...

The spectral management type inventory (SMTI) is an analytical instrument designed to enable people to identify their personal management style. All top‐level managers in one large UK corporation filled in a self‐perception questionnaire assessing their management style. Then, as a group,...

The paper presents Spectral Management Theory as well as its applications to managerial and learning styles to a wide audience ‐ management trainers, human resource managers and general managers who have an interest in managerial development and organisational learning. The spectral approach...

The New Enterprise Programmes In the last 18 months a series of courses have emerged, round the country, for people starting their own businesses. The majority of these have been sponsored by the Training Services Division under their ‘New Enterprise Programme’, and have been based in...

Over the past year, I have been privileged enough to be observing, from very close quarters, eleven separate entrepreneurs starting up in business. The eleventh, incidentally, has been myself. Every week, over a period of three months, individuals have been reporting back on their progress, in...

Self‐expression and business formation are not conventionally associated with each other. One is to do with art or psychology, the other with technique or economics. Yet in reality, the two processes are intimately associated. Business, like life itself, is an evolutionary process. As an...

What part has work to play in a total life style? Conventional economists, now as in the past, tend to answer this question by saying that the purpose of work is to provide the worker with his livelihood in strictly economic terms. Today this view is being questioned and as jobs in paid...

We live in an age of change, unbalanced change. One computer generation succeeds another at the virtual drop of a hat. No sooner have we digested the silicon‐chip than our appetites are whetted with bio‐technology. The rate of technological progress, in the industrialised world is quite...