MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

 

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

Management development is a process in which managers working at different levels learn and improve their ability, capability, knowledge and skills for improving the performance of individual as well as organization. The effectiveness of managers at work contributes a lot to the success of every organization.

Management development has been described by Mumford and Gold (2004) as ‘an attempt to improve managerial effectiveness through a learning process.

Tamkin et al (2003) suggest that managers need the ability to,

● Empower and develop people – understand and practise the process of delivering through the capability of others;

● Manage people and performance – managers increasingly need to maintain morale whilst also maximizing performance;

● Work across boundaries, engaging with others, working as a member of a team, thinking differently about problems and their solutions;

● Develop relationships and a focus on the customer, building partnerships with both internal and external customers;

● Balance technical and generic skills – the technical aspects of management and the management of human relationships.

Hirsh et al (2000) suggest a number of priorities for management development. These are,

● Combining a strong corporate architecture for management development with a capability for ‘just in time’ and local delivery to meet specific business needs;

● Providing better information and advice for individual managers on how to think about their future direction in career terms and their learning needs;

● Mainstreaming the skills required to manage self-development and to support the development of others; these skills include those of ‘manager as coach’ but also go wider and include informal career mentoring;

● Finding ways of delivering more stretching and stimulating management development to the whole population of managers, not just those in very senior posts or identified as ‘high potential’.

Conclusion

Management development has lot of advantages to any organizations. It help to improve ability, capability, knowledge and skills of the managers. Also improve managerial effectiveness through a learning process. 

 Reference

Mumford, A and Gold, J (2004) Management Development: Strategies for action, CIPD,2004 

Tamkin, P, Hirsh, W and Tyers, ? (2003) Clone (?) to Champion: The making of betterpeople managers, Report No 389 Institute of Employment Studies, Brighton 

Hirsh, W, Pollard, E and Tamkin, P (2000) Management development IRS Employee Development Bulletin, November

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