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    Corporate Mobility and Paths to the Top: Studies for Human Resource and Management Development Specialists » Read Now

    by J. Benjamin Forbes, James E. Piercy. 217 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This work represents the first study of executive mobility to be founded on research-based data rather than opinion. Throughout the book, Forbes and Piercy deal with specific issues such as the early promotion versus the "late bloomer," changing industries in an attempt to move up more quickly, and...
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    Reinventing Training and Development » Read Now

    by Ronald R. Sims. 189 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    The training and development function has made important contributions to the success of American corporations, but is it time now for an overhaul? Sims thinks it is. Not only does his book delineate the ways in which T&D has lost touch with the times, but it also identifies the ways in which it...
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    Learning Theory in the Practice of Management Development: Evolution and Applications » Read Now

    by Sidney Mailick, Stephen A. Stumpf, Sara Grant, Aharon Kfir, Mary Anne Watson. 174 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    The workplace is the ideal environment for tying together management theory and practice and yet, classes in many regular management development programs are conducted away from the work site, and class sizes are so large that individual instruction is difficult to achieve. In this book, the authors...
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    E-Leader: Reinventing Leadership in a Connected Economy (Chap. 7 "From Being a Manager/Technician to Being a Coach/Mentor") » Read Now

    by Robert Hargrove. 344 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Today every business is an e-business, and whether you are selling golf outings over the Internet or manufacturing the carts, there is no escaping the fact that every aspect of organizational design is profoundly affected by the new rules of the electronic economy. What many people and organizations...
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    Special Challenges in Career Management: Counselor Perspectives (Chap. 17 "Executive Coaching: A Strategy for Management and Organizational Development") » Read Now

    by Alan J. Pickman. 252 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...services in the areas of executive coaching, organizational development, and internal career...managing partner of Executive Development Associates, LLC, a global...career...
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    Here the People Rule: Selected Essays (Chap. 12 "The Training of the Executive") » Read Now

    by Edward C. Banfield. 407 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This book of essays includes Edward C. Banfield's most important insights into the American political system.
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    Role Development and Interpersonal Competence: An Experimental Study of Role Performances in Problem-Solving Groups (1963) (Chap. 8 "Implications for the Development of Administrators") » Read Now

    by David Moment, Abraham Zaleznik. 350 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...responsible for initiating executive development programs. The theory and...from those responsible for executive development programs. The emphasis on...and perplexing...
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    Human Productivity Enhancement: Organizations, Personnel, and Decision Making, Vol. 2 ("Executive Development" begins on p. 50) » Read Now

    by Joseph Zeidner. 506 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Also, they stress that development of executives should include the process...of course, is not new. Executive development programs depend on the assumption...
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    The Strategic Leadership Imperative for Executive Development, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

    by Albert A. Vicere. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...leadership imperative for executive development. by Albert A. Vicere...organization. The imperative for executive development, then, is to cultivate strategic...changing...
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    Executive Development That Makes a Business Difference, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

    by Gail S. Robinson, Calhoun W. Wick. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Executive development that makes a business difference...demand a more powerful approach to executive development. We call this approach "Learning...In each case, this...
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    World Class Executive Development, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

    by Lloyd Baird, John Briscoe, Lydia Tuden, L.M.H. Rosansky. 15 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...World class executive development. by Lloyd Baird...framed the companies approach to executive development and guided our analysis...formal approaches to developing...
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    A Model for Executive Development, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

    by Bertram C. Edelstein, David J. Armstrong Jr. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...A model for executive development. by Bertram C. Edelstein...defined a suitable model for executive development as far as modifying an executives...knowledge with which the...
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    Providing a Base for Executive Development at the State Level, in Public Personnel Management » Read Now

    by Montgomery Van Wart. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Providing a base for executive development at the state level. by Montgomery Van Wart Executive development can only be properly conceptualized...needs and constraints of...
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    Executive Careers and Learning: Aligning Selection, Strategy, and Development, in Human Resource Planning » Read Now

    by Douglas T. Hall. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...This paper discusses how executive development can add value to the strategic...First we define strategic executive development and some reasons it does...diversity into...
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    How Executives Grow, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now

    by Helen Handfield-Jones. 8 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...effectively. 1 In no area of executive development--job rotation, traditional...Job experience drives executive development Companies develop executives...action. One...
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    The Growth and Development of Executives (1950) » Read Now

    by Myles L. Mace. 200 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...some of the problems of executive development in the electric utility...statistical survey of executive development in manufacturing companies...the problem. NEED FOR...

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