Journal of Management Development: Volume 17 Issue 1

Best practice in management education: capitalising on gender diversity awareness

Catherine R. Smith

Reports on an Australian survey comparing women and men students’ perceptions of learning advantages and disadvantages in management education. Findings suggest a masculine bias…

Smashing into the glass ceiling for women managers

Camilla Veale, Jeff Gold

Examines the subject of the glass ceiling for women managers and empirical research within a Metropolitan District Council. Looks at the causes of, effects of, and solutions to…

Beyond values ‐ exploring the twenty‐first century organization

John D. Burdett

Many of our established institutions are under attack. It would appear that old solutions no longer fit the new challenge. To create sustaining organization forms it is necessary…

Learning, leadership, teams: corporate learning and organisational change

Yochanan Altman, Paul Iles

Organisational learning and learning organisations have become topics of great interest to HRM in the 1990s, but the conceptual basis for understanding corporate learning is…

The best and worst time for management development

Mike Broussine, Mike Gray, Phil Kirk, Kimberly Paumier, Mike Tichelar, Stephen Young

Can the worst time for an organisation provide the best circumstances for management learning? One UK local authority began a management development programme 18 months before a…

Management and productivity increases

Lawson K. Savery

Describes the difference in attitudes between managers and shopfloor workers concerning the influences of productivity increases on outcomes from both groups. The study shows that…

Small business development and gender of owner

Suzanne Catley, R.T. Hamilton

Reviews the entrepreneurship and small business literature in search of a basis for gender‐specific explanations of business development. Contends that small business development…

How do we make management development effective?

Peter Goodge

Analyses the business context of management development in the late 1990s, and presents some surprising survey results on the effectiveness of development methods ‐ results which…