Table of Contents

Leaders and managers, leadership and management development
Strategic management development
Measuring leaders and managers
Assessing development needs of leaders and managers
Leaders, managers and learning
Activities influencing the development of leaders and managers
Combining work and learning
Evaluating LMD
LMD and social capital
The future supply of leaders and managers
Diversity, ecology and LMD
LMD in SMEs
Futures and LMD

About the Author

Alan Mumford has published numerous articles and books and is a leading figure in the management development field. Jeff Gold is a principal lecturer in Organisation Learning at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Richard Thorpe is a professor of Management Development and deputy director of the Keyworth Institute at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK.

Reviews

"A highly readable and challenging text, the new edition contains many significant and useful additions."
*Barras Stone, Associate Lecturer, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University , UK*

"A thorough and well-written text. Case studies and exercises link theory to practice, and the discussion questions are useful and probing."
*Margaret Inman, Principal Lecturer in HRM, Swansea Metropolitan University, UK*