Discusses how an in‐progress management development programme became the vehicle of a “cultural revolution” after acquisition by another company and helped to consolidate the new combined enterprise because of its timely and fortuitous emphasis on team building. Gives details of subsequent...

Examines the global organization and its particular management development needs. It proposes that implicit in the idea of global stategy is a model of management based on efficiency. Efficiency is created by a uniformity of approach across national and cultural boundaries. Global managers must...

Argues that, although cultural differences clearly affect relationships within organizations, tensions are often triggered first by other contextual factors. Presents the findings of a study of foreign acquisitions of US firms, and demonstrates how problems between the two partners most often...

Describes an evolving dynamic relationship between protégé and mentor, which strongly impacts on the entire organization and those microcomponents associated with organizational behaviour in general. These include individual processes, interpersonal and work group processes, and organizational...

Examines the way in which management has denied training and development the prospect of making a full contribution to corporate renewal. Concentrates on the structural obstacles inherent in the internal environment. The organizational climate within firms must alter radically if training and...

Suggests that adopting fashionable activity‐centred programmes such as TQM or re‐engineering, to parts of the entire organization without a general strategy tying them to long‐term corporate goals, seldom leads to desirable results. Indicates how an organization can build a climate which...

For Yaohan International Group, the most important aspects of management development are not the acquisition of knowledge and the training of skills per se, but the cultivation of the right mind and spirit. The group thrives on the corporate culture which believes in the unlimited potential of...

To win in today’s highly competitive business races, leaders must first come to grips with the starting position and desired condition of their organization. Describes how the mind‐body framework is a practical tool for energizing such a diagnosis. Explains that a strong “mind” is...

Describes the impact of ongoing downsizing activities as an established organization attempts to develop a new corporate culture. Objective of this undertaking was to recommend an action plan and feedback loop to assist this complex procedure. An organizational climate survey was developed via a...

Information technology (IT) development methodologies may be described as another bastion of rationalist, positivist, functionalist hegemony. The paper historically reviews IT development methodologies of the past 30 years. The major methodologies of the Classical Systems Life Cycle, Structures...