Major trends influencing executive education include increased competition for training providers, customized programs, action learning, technology and distance delivery, experience-based methods, performance feedback, and emphasis on leadership competencies for the future, especially flexibility and adaptability. (SK)

Discusses an Australian task-force report on future needs of management, addressing from a business education viewpoint the issues of philosophy of management education, theory versus practice, government role, curriculum renewal, technology, and the nature of management. (SK)

Economic development in Kazakhstan has been hindered by a shortage of managers familiar with a market economy. The Kazakhstan Institute of Management Economics and Strategic Research was established to upgrade professional training and provide models for business programs in other state universities in the nation. (SK)