Journal of Management Development: Volume 20 Issue 2

Seven key issues for management development

Jaap Paauwe, Roger Williams

Introduces the key issues in management development that this special issue aims to tackle. These include: what is management development? Why is management development worthy of…

A typology of management development

Paul Jansen, Mandy van der Velde, Wim Mul

Management development (MD) is defined as the system of personnel practices intended to ensure that an organization can rely on timely availability of qualified and motivated…

Management development in Royal Dutch/Shell

Carla Mahieu

Charts the history of management development in the Shell organisation. Techniques established over many years were suddenly challenged by the economic forces of liberalisation…

Management development in Unilever

S.G. Reitsma

Unilever uses management development (MD) as a strategic tool to help the organization meet its short and long term goals. In recent years, Unilever has undergone a process of…

International co‐ordination and management development: An application at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ludwig Hoeksema, Geert de Jong

In the highly competitive international consulting marketplace clients will always demand a world‐class service. A major challenge for PricewaterhouseCoopers is how to achieve the…

The breaking in of new employees: effectiveness of socialisation tactics and personnel instruments

Joost Ardts, Paul Jansen, Mandy van der Velde

In the last couple of years, attention to organisation socialisation has increased greatly; this is the learning process by which newcomers develop attitudes and behaviour that…

The palette of management development

Lidewey van der Sluis‐den Dikken, Ludwig H. Hoeksema

The central challenge of management development is to control and manage the learning process of managers, focused on individual development and career success and/or reaching…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02621719110006590. When citing the…

Editorial

Jaap Paauwe, Roger Williams