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Next Generation Management Development The Complete Guide and Resource

Author: Robert D. Cecil; William J. Rothwell
Publisher: Pfeiffer
ISBN: 9780787982713
Published In: November 2006
Format: Hardback , 540 pages
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This innovative, comprehensive, and fully integrated management development program provides a vehicle for enabling managers and leaders to participate more effectively in their organization's OD processes. The concepts, models, tools, and other materials have been used successfully to train managers, leaders, and MD/OD personnel in organizations such as IBM, AT&T, Kraft, Baxter Labs, Sears, Caterpiller, and the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force.

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This is the ultimate guide for anyone who designs, develops, and delivers management or supervisor training.
Provides an innovative, fully integrated management education and training program that has been used with such extraordinary success.
Contains material that has already proven to be successful with such companies as: IBM, AT&T, Kraft, U. S. Navy and Army, Baxter Labs, Walgreen, Sears, Caterpillar, and many others

Reviews

"The concepts and ideas in this book are powerful tools to help train managers to be effective leaders."
—Jay W. Lorsch, Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School

"Packed with gems such as well-known gurus' concepts and an exceptional number of innovative insights and integrative models, this monumental work is the closest to being a comprehensive bible on general management that I've ever seen."
—Thomas G. Plaskett, chairman of the board, Novell, Inc.; former chairman and CEO, Pan Am Corporation; and corporate director of Alcon, Inc. and RadioShack Corporation.

"Cecil and Rothwell have combined over fifty years of practical experiences into a treasure chest of training materials—complete with useful concepts, models, tools, and techniques—that will become the 'must-have' reference for developing managers, leaders, and entire organizations."
—Patrick A. Cataldo, Jr., associate dean for executive education, Pennsylvania State University, and formerly a member of the board of directors, American Society for Training and Development

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About the Authors.

Introduction.

Unfulfilled Needs of Organizations.

Basic Description of the Book and Its Purposes.

Benefits of This Book for Professional and Student Audiences.

How All Readers Can Get the Most from This Book and Its CD-ROM.

1 Preview of the Book’s Next Generation MD/OD Project.

Introduction.

Description of an Integrated MD/OD Project.

Recommendations on Designing a Highly Effective MD/OD Project.

Concluding Remarks.

PART ONE: MANAGEMENT (INTEGRATIVE) FUNCTIONS AND PROCESSES.

2 Initial Perspectives on Management Functions and Processes.

Introduction.

The Basics.

The Think-Work Functions.

The Implementation Functions.

Beyond the Basics.

Fresh Perspectives on the Managerial (Integrative) Process.

Additional Perspectives on Management and Management Processes.

Basic Obstacles to Effective Think-Work.

Concluding Remarks.

3 The Analysis Phase.

Introduction.

The Basics.

Robert D. Cecil is the chairman and president of R.D. Cecil and Company.

William J. Rothwell is a professor of workplace learning and performance in the Department of Learning and Performance at the University Park Campus of the Pennsylvania State University