An evaluation approach to study the success of management development programs is presented. The evaluation is based on an analysis of the relationship between program success, program staffing, and four participant characteristics which might interact with perceptions of course favorability; age, education, years with the organization, and reason…

The assessment center can be a mechanism for providing a highly sophisticated evaluation of the training effort. The article describes how the training manager can successfully incorporate the assessment center concept into an overall training evaluation strategy. (Author/MW)