Sunday, February 02, 2014

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

Management development is more concerned with education than imparting job skills to employees, more future oriented or enabling a person to become a better performer. Management development activities attempt to instill sound reasoning processes rather than imparting a body of serial facts or teaching a specific set of motor skills. Therefore, development, concentrates more on the employees’ personal growth.
Management development is instrumental in giving managers the conceptual skills and perspectives they need to be successful. 
THE PROCESS OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT: The process of management development should following certain steps:
 1. Determination of Organization’s Objectives: The process of management development must begin by looking at the organization’s objectives. The objectives will provide us the direction we must go and give a framework to determine our managerial needs, 
 2. Appraisal of Current Management Resources: On the basis of the information gather from human resource planning, we can prepare an executive inventory.  The executive inventory can provide us background and qualifications of our current managers as to appraise our current management resources,  
3. Ascertain the development activities: The third step in a sound management development is to ascertain the development activities needed to ensure that we have adequate managerial talent to fulfill future managerial needs. This analysis can tell us the potential obsolescence of some our executives, the inexperience or shortage of managers in certain functions, and skill deficiencies relative to our future needs, 
4. Determine Individual development needs: The next step is to identify individual development needs which may include knowledge acquisition, improving attitudes and skill development. Generally, most of management development effort focuses on the changing of attitudes and the acquisition of knowledge in specific areas. The assessment centre can prove to be an effective tool to determine what specific development attempts our managers need. The assessment centers can also be used to assess current and potential managers to find out what development activities might be necessary to improve their job performance. Assessment centers thus become a definitive source for selecting and developing managers. 
5. Evaluation: The final step in the process is to evaluate the management development efforts. Once managers have engaged in development activities, it is necessary to assess changes in behavior and managerial performance
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