Management Development: Perspectives from Research and Practice / Edition 1

by Rosemary Hill, Jim Stewart

Overview

Recognizing a significant need to continually update the current body of knowledge on management development with the latest innovations in high quality research and practice in various parts of the globe, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the state of research and practice in management development.

Hill and Stewart provide examples of both management development research and practice to inform and stimulate future research and to encourage the use of research-based practice in organizations. In particular, the book:

• Explores and assesses the various and varying meanings attached to the term ‘management development’ and its use
• Provides a range of examples of research and practice to inform and support the teaching of management development as a subject
• Provides a resource to HR practitioners and line managers to develop research-based and critically analyzed management development interventions.

Drawing on the expertise of a wide array of contributors, the term ‘management development’ is explored and critically analyzed both conceptually and practically. This impressive volume is essential reading for students and academics across a range of subdisciplines including human recources development, human resources management and leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415541664
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/16/2012
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rosemary Hill, Jim Stewart

Table of Contents

1. Editors’ Introduction Part 1: Parameters of Management Development 2. Management Development: The Critical Discursive Approach 3. Corporate Technocrats or World Stewards?: What’s the Point of Management Development? 4. Strategic Management Development 5. Management Development for Unemployed Managers: The South Yorkshire Management Update Programme Part 2: Comparative Insights 6. Management Development in France 7. Towards Evidence-Based Management Development 8. A Stakeholder Approach to the Study of Management Education 9. Raising Future Leaders 10. (Inter)Cultural Management Part 3: Organizational Impact 11. Management Development in the Deventer Hospital 12. Clinical Leadership in the NHS: Developing Discourses and Learning Styles 13. Management Development for Women Entrepreneurs Who Own and Manage Small Businesses in Vietnam 14. Leading by Learning: An Integrated Approach to Middle Management Training Part 4: Aspects of Management Development 15. Multi-Source Feedback: Managers’ Accounts of Content and Post Feedback Development 16. Building Commitment through Management Development: Does it Work? 17. The ‘Three Rs’ of Management Learning 18. Unconscious Leadership Development for the Seven Deadly Sins 19. The Impact of ‘Emotion Management’ on the Psychological Contract 20. Editors’ Conclusion