Critical thinking is an essential component of managerial literacy, yet business school graduates struggle to apply critical-thinking skills at work to the level that employers desire. This article argues for a dispositional approach to teaching critical thinking, rooted in cultivating a critical-thinking culture. We suggest a two-pronged approach…

Past and present developmental practices are compared with the newer motivational approach to career planning and human resource management. Two figures. Four references. (LY)

We need an eclectic management development approach combining the best features of both classroom based systems (T groups, sensitivity training, games, university programs) and of such job based systems as coaching, counseling, and planned rotation. (LY)

A lecture on experiential learning is an example of one type of educational incongruity (method and content are incongruent); another type is incongruence between method and learners' expectations. Such incongruity can minimize learning. A two-page checklist provides trainers with potential incongruities, their possible consequences, and available…

Introduces an example project to describe a knowledge creation process and a practical mechanism for capturing and disseminating knowledge in a small working group. Describes the needs analysis, design process, and development process. (DDR)

Assesses the challenges posed by the talk of globalization for French management education. Analyzes the strategies adopted by French business schools for coping with the globalization imperative. (DDR)

In engineering companies administered by standard procedures, role playing can develop and measure competences in junior managers. Describes a role-playing exercise that develops and assesses competence in communication skills used in problem solving. Outlines the simulation's aims, resources, scenario, exercise inputs and outputs, operation,…

The Canadian Public Service Commission conducted an experimental course using the communication technology satellite for the experimental group and a conventional classroom for the control group. Both groups of forty managers had the same subject matter and used the same student-directed learning methodology. The article contains observations on…

This guide to the development of line managers stresses the idea that the developmental process which any manager undergoes is the product of his own activity and should be treated as a continuous function. Major line functions, managerial attributes and characteristics, presupervisory selection, and preparation through trainee, temporary foremen,…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ADULT TRAINING CONTAINS 35 INDEXED ITEMS, MANY WITH ABSTRACTS, IN SUCH AREAS AS MILITARY TRAINING, MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND RETRAINING, AND ON SUCH METHODS, TECHNIQUES, AND RELATED ASPECTS AS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, TRAINING COSTS, CORRESPONDENCE STUDY, PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, TRAINING…

This directory of Federal Educational and Training activities contains 25 completed reports and studies, followed by 48 others on programs still in progress. The Civil Service Commission, Post Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfare report activities of both…

Focusing on the impact of participant characteristics on learning, this study investigated whether certain teaching methods are more effective than others in changing the knowledge and attitudes of adults with specific personality profiles. A total of 117 persons from each of five sections of a course ("Coaching and Developing Individuals")…

Emphasizing critical thinking as the source of renewal and survival of organizations, this document begins by analyzing the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger as examples of inadequate critical thinking. The role of management education in promoting critical thinking is explored as well as the need for a…

Fourth in a series on public personnel administration, this book discusses problems in personnel and organizational development (OD) and the resources potentially available to solve them, then indicates some of the ways in which employee development might be facilitated. Basic steps in the systems approach to development are outlined, followed by…

Intended as a guide to staff training and administration in the British distributive trades, this book begins by considering the special managerial needs and problems of retailers. It goes on to discuss job satisfaction and dissatisfaction, job analysis, recruitment and reception of new employees, management development (including the evaluation…