Purpose: The purpose of this study is to predict the transfer of training (ToT) from management training. This study empirically examined the predictive power of ToT factors, namely, individual characteristics (self-efficacy), training intervention design (training approaches) and work climate (organizational support) among the study respondents.…

The speed and complexity of change in business practice, dramatically intensified with the COVID-19 outbreak, has never been greater than today. Navigating this "new norm" requires for any organization, besides other factors, two main things: Managers and leaders who are capable of coaching their team members as well as a new type of…

This article is based on a keynote address delivered at the 33rd annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference in Rochester, New York, on June 15, 2006. The audience for this address included faculty, executive educators from the profit and nonprofit sectors, and doctoral students in the organizational and management sciences who had gathered…

This is the second of three articles discussing a learning preferences approach to management self-development. Two case studies of individual managers illustrate the process. An organizational case study is also provided to show how organizational structure and culture interact with the learning and problem-solving styles of employees. (SK)

Review of six studies of managers showed that much learning resulted from such factors as challenging job assignments, peer/supervisor relationships, community learning, family upbringing, life experiences, and organizational environment. Viewing humans merely as resources for economic development and ignoring this informal learning are neither…

This article reviews some work that illustrates the problem of developing managers in developing nations and draws on experience gained from discussing these issues with African managers, students, and academics in order to consider an alternative way of approaching development in Africa. (Author/CT)

Discusses the tasks of library administration in relation to autocratic, participatory, and contingency approaches to management problems. The psychological and organizational side-effects of the three management styles are considered and a humanistic combination of approaches is suggested. A bibliography is included. (JL)

This is one of a series of monographs on the application of management principles to educational organizations. This monograph is devoted to identifying that way of managing that opens up a system and frees the individuals therein to voluntarily, willingly, even enthusiastically, strive to achieve the goals of the organization. Emphasis is placed…

Examined popular self-help books to determine how they portray organizational life and the female manager. Concluded that their rhetorical vision of the female manager is superficial and that for the woman who participates in this view of organizational life, the books present incomplete, contradictory, and debilitating advice. (PD)

The role of women in management has become a topic of interest and importance during the last few years. This bibliography was compiled as a contribution to the Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Administration's seminar, The Emerging Role of Women in Management, held March 19, 1976. The materials included have been limited to those dealing…

A management consultant writes about the need for developing good management personnel in business and industry, the value of delegation and accountability, and individual career counseling for the young manager. He states that important guidelines are clear corporate objectives and performance standards for each position. (MF)

Using the case history method, this book documents the actual experiences of three top management groups seeking to develop the full potential of the technical and human resources of their organizations and to grow profitably in both economic and human terms. Each of the organizations is at some stage of the process of changing from the…

Logit analyses of a survey of 2,077 scientists and engineers validated individual-level variables as an explanation for the tendency to aspire to managerial careers in research and development centers. Growing organizations appear to promote internal mobility and management development, whereas declining firms concerned with eroding technical…

A study was made of relationships of industrial management practices to management education in West Pakistan's industrial development. Directors of institutions having management education courses, and over 69 managers at 30 family, government, and foreign controlled plants in Karachi were interviewed on policies, practices, and problems in…

Ideas that may help college and university administrators develop a more coherent and integrated view of the institutions they inhabit and, therefore, be more effective as they work in them are presented. Suggestions are made to help them think in more complex ways about their work and improving their performance. Thoughts are based on ideas that…