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Thompson, David – Management Education and Development, 1983
This paper suggests an approach which combines ideas about coalitions of power in managerial organizations with a soundly based technology of management development intervention. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Intervention, Management Development, Organizational Development
Barber, John – Industrial Training International, 1973
Authoritarian management from above can no longer impose controls on subordinates. Participative management is now essential to improve organizational efficiency, release individual and group initiative, and make a fundamental improvement in the climate of British industrial relations. (MS)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Labor Relations, Management Development, Management Systems

Burdett, John O. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1991
Explains the importance of developing empowered employees, outlines stages of supervisory growth from administrator to coach, defines sources of the supervisory power base, explores differences between traditional and empowered thinking in job design, and describes how to build an organizational learning culture. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Educational Environment, Empowerment

Salaman, Graeme – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1979
After examining how management development and organization theory have developed, the author considers how the two are linked and discusses their place in today's management scenario. Looks at how management development practice has used theories of organizational structure and process, permitting a new form of management appraisal or…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Bureaucracy, Management by Objectives

Sorensen, Jr., Peter F.; Baum, Bernard H. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
This is a review of work done in the past twenty years with the Control Graph, including the evolution of Control-Graph studies, its relationship to other perspectives of organizations, and an overview of study findings. (Author)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Employee Attitudes, Management Development, Measurement Techniques
Kuchinke, K. Peter, Ed. – 2000
This two-volume document contains the proceedings of the 2000 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). Volume 1 contains the following materials: conference overview; text of a town forum on social responsibility and human resource development (HRD); papers from symposia 1-24; and papers from innovative sessions 1-4. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)