Developing Managers for Social Change

Abstract

The current world recession highlights the widespread difficulty government and business leaders have in managing national industrial economies to use existing technology, plant and equipment, and most importantly, human resources. Unemployment in the OECD countries rose to 29.3 million in 1982, and was expected to reach 32 million by the end of 1983. GNP in these countries fell from a general growth rate of 3.4 per cent in 1979 to minus 0.5 per cent in the first half of 1982. However, managers of business organisations must, as they have always tried to do, anticipate changes in their economic and social environment which will affect them and their organisations, and attempt to cope with them. What important social trends are impacting on organisations in the non‐communist industrial world, and what are the implications for managers and for management developers over the next decade?

Citation

Peter, H.W. (1984), "Developing Managers for Social Change", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051552