The traditional approach to management development — based on identification of talent and a planned career structure — will have to adjust to shrinking job and promotion opportunities. But organisations still need to plan for management succession. Four approaches are suggested, including...

The development of a measure of corporate culture is reviewed. A three factor model focused on how managers motivate performance emerged from repeated factorings. Scores are reported for seven organisations. Both frontal assaults and flanking manoeuvres for shaping effective work cultures are...

A life insurance firm undertakes a major programme to integrate management development with organisational development as a change strategy to impact on all levels of employees. The underlying objectives — improved planning, team effectiveness, resource utilisation, open communication — lead...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the range and depth of sustainability issues at their points of impact with company experience, and to pilot an illustration of how they could be imaginatively yet critically approached for management development purposes....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the relationship between public sector practitioners and academic providers in the design and delivery of management development programmes. What is the added value of HEI involvement in management development and does this intervention...

As companies increasingly face the challenge of aligning their real estate and facility assets with their business goals, strategic facilities planning (SFP) has grown as an area of expertise and discipline which provides increasingly sophisticated tools for supporting complex decisions. This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the effects of a unique leadership programme, four years after its delivery: in a Dutch penitentiary organisation. This intervention was initiated because of a felt lack of safety in an organisation that was characterised by steep hierarchy,...

Purpose – This article aims to give an overview of how neuro‐linguistic programming (NLP) has been applied in a fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment over a number of years. Design/methodology/approach – The article includes practical examples of how tools have been applied and...

Improved customer service was pinpointed as the means to improve British Airways' commercial performance. Research studies on staff attitudes were followed by a staff development programme, and a management development programme that reflected the transformation in organisation culture...

Rapid growth and increased competition led to organisational problems in a high tech manufacturing concern in the US. A course was designed to introduce new behaviours, skills and attitudes to the management team. A combination of classroom/active participation, off‐site workshops, and...