Journal of Management Development: Volume 11 Issue 5

Strategic Human Resource Management for the Integration of Foreign Acquisitions

Torsten J. Gerpott, Brian Bloch

More and more firms view the acquisition of foreign firms as animportant component of their internationalization strategy. An importantbut frequently overlooked condition for the…

Needs Analysis Theory and the Effectiveness of Large‐scale Government‐sponsored Training Programmes: A Case Study

Phillip C. Wright, Gary D. Geroy

Reports on a study of current and past training literature whichsuggests that, to be effective and to isolate both training needs andthose problems having other, non‐trainable…

Paradoxical Country – Management Education in Poland

Stefan Kwiatkowski, Andrzej K. Koźmiński

Management education in Poland is doing much better than the Polisheconomy. Centres of excellence are slowly being formed, and there aresigns of hope that the whole educational…

Management Education in Romania

Ovidiu Nicolescu

Reports on the current level of management training in Romania,pointing to some of its inadequacies and suggesting ways these can beovercome. Suggests, particularly, that more…

Integrating Self‐directed Teams into the Management Development Curriculum

Thomas P. Mullen

Self‐directed work teams are playing an increasingly important rolein companies around the world. In many respects they represent afundamentally different way of conducting…

Applying an Experiential Learning Styles Framework to Management and Professional Development

Judith A. White

Summarizes the findings and observations from managerial andprofessional development workshops with managers, physicians, educators,and social workers where a theory of…