Management Development: The Challenge of Mixed Ability Groups

Abstract

A common experience of tutors of post graduate management courses is the wide range of backgrounds, attributes, qualifications, experience and competence of course members. In this article the authors explore the nature of this mixed ability, seek to identify the challenges it presents in course design and thereafter explore possible approaches that might be adopted to minimise the harmful effects and optimise the learning to be gained from the mixed ability, post graduate programme. For the purpose of this paper, mixed ability is not used in the narrow sense of cleverness or mental faculty, but rather to encompass the individual's capacity to learn from and contribute to the learning programme.

Citation

Candlin, D.B., Franklin, S.D., Heath, J.L. and Knibbs, J.R. (1982), "Management Development: The Challenge of Mixed Ability Groups", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051530