MBA (General)IV – Semester, Training and Development Unit 5.1
Approaches to Management Development
Management Development is best described as the process from which managers learn and improve their skills not only to benefit themselves but also their employing organizations.
Introduction
Management
Development is best described as the process from which managers learn and improve their skills not only to
benefit themselves but also their employing organizations.
In organizational development (OD), the effectiveness of management is recognized as one of the determinants of
organizational success. Therefore, investment in management development can have a direct economic
benefit to the organization.
Managers
are exposed to learning opportunities whilst doing their jobs, if this informal learning is used as a formal process then it is regarded as management development.
What Management Development Includes:
Structured informal
learning: work-based methods
aimed at structuring the informal learning which will always take place
Formal training
courses of various
kinds: from very specific courses
on technical aspects of jobs to courses on wider management skills
Education: which
might range from courses for (perhaps prospective) junior managers or team leaders
Level 2 Team leading (ILM)
NVQ Level 3
Certificate in Management /Studies
Diploma in Management /Studies
MSc/MA in management or Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees.
