Author Description

For the new edition of Gower Handbook of Management Development Professor Mumford has again brought together a distinguished team of contributors from a variety of backgrounds. Their contributions range over the entire spectrum of management development, covering principles, processes and practice. A constant theme is the need to match management development schemes and activities to the needs of specific organizations and the contributions, though widely differing in their origin, all derive from actual experience and are all concerned with application. Two key features of the book are the attention paid, firstly, to the relationship between management development and managerial effectiveness, and, secondly, to the way in which our knowledge about how managers learn can be applied. New chapters include one on mentoring and coaching and one on interactive video, while there is an increased emphasis on questions of culture - both national and organizational. This revised and enlarged edition of the Handbook offers an array of information, stimulus and practical guidance that will appeal powerfully to management development practitioners, consultants, personnel specialists and indeed anyone seriously concerned with improving managerial effectiveness.