Focuses on the difficulties which arise from trying to monitor and evaluate in‐house company training courses – making sure that knowledge and skills obtained on the programme are put into practice back in the workplace and provide real benefits for the company. While it is stressed that...

Explores the requirements of successful executive development programmes and looks at three superior examples in the USA. Describes how extensive CEO involvement is essential and that leading companies believe they must build their programmes from scratch. Notes that the executive development...

Describes how an aircraft factory British Aerospace Defence Ltd (Military Aircraft Division), Brough forged links with local institutions of higher education (Hull University and Humberside Polytechnic) to create two new in‐house training programmes for supervisory and middle management...

The meat and poultry industry commissioned the design and production of a management development programme following five years of pressure resulting from health scares and increasing regulation. Companies in the industry acknowledged an ongoing issue in filling management posts effectively and...

Describes the process of change at Birmingham City Council to cope with new legislation including compulsory competitive tendering. Achieving the strategic objectives of the City Council needed key elements of education, training and development for all employees and Members. Describes the...

Focuses on women in the field of organization development (OD), their consulting practices, motivators, values, and intended directions for the future. Reviews the current state of the field – focusing on both the inherent tension in values that is endemic to the practice of OD today and the...