Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 19 Issue 5

Management development: the neglected domain

Stephen Wightman, Eddie McAleer

Examines management development requirements in small companieswithin the software industry, and suggests that firms′ effectiveness inthis sector in the long term requires the…

Competence‐based management development: rhetoric and reality

Graeme Currie, Roger Darby

Summarizes recent debates as to the strengths and weaknesses ofcompetence‐based management development, and illustrates these via acase study. In the case study, key issues are…

Workforce training:: are small firms different

Paul Joyce, Tony McNulty, Adrian Woods

The British CBI introduced national educational and trainingtargets in 1991. Small firms might be regarded as unlikely to respond tothem because of, for example, lack of time…

Customer‐focused management development: a case study

Paul Humphreys, Eddie McAleer, Stephen Wightman, Michael Keogh, Bill Manson

Many industrial companies have expressed a growing concern over thequality of managers in manufacturing industry and their ability to adaptto rapid environmental and technological…