Management development
Management development is concerned with improving managers’ performance in
their present roles and preparing them for greater responsibilities in the future. It has
been described by Mumford and Gold (2004) as ‘an attempt to improve managerial
effectiveness through a learning process’. In this chapter, the following aspects of
management development are considered:
● its aims, needs and priorities;
● its requirements, nature as a business-led process and the elements involved in a
management development processes;
● the main management development activities of analysis, assessment and
strategy formulation;
● approaches to management development with an emphasis on integration, expe-
riential and self-managed learning and personal development planning, and the
use of competency-frameworks and development centres;
● the concept of emotional intelligence and its use in the development of leadership
skills;
● the responsibility for management development.
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