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Training and Development System

Notes

Notes Management development is an educational process utilising a systematic and
organised procedure by which managerial personnel learn conceptual and theoretical
knowledge for general purposes. These purposes concern: (i) Productivity, (ii) Quality,
(iii) Human resource planning, (iv) Morale, (v) Indirect compensation, (vi) Health and
safety, (vii) Obsolescence prevention, and (viii) Personnel growth.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

1. Management training is not a ……………. affair but continues throughout an executive’s
whole professional career.
2. In analysing the skills of a manager, Katz speaks of three types which are technical, human
and ………………..
3. …………….. Skills are those which enable a manager to use effectively techniques, methods,
processes and equipment in performing specific jobs.

13.2 Need and Importance of Management Development

Efficient and loyal workers were promoted to the supervisory or management positions and it
was soon realised that superior workers do not necessarily make superior managers. This
realisation necessitated the need for planned programmes for the selection, training and
development of managerial personnel.

Objectives of Management Development

Prof. A. Das Gupta has given the level-wise objectives of the management development thus:
He concludes : “For the top management, the objectives are mostly general and aim at developing
the ability to understand and to decide, although a few functional areas like personnel, marketing
and finance are also included. For middle line executives, the objectives may be of two types:
one to develop intellectually, and the other to broaden the outlook and improve the ability to
make decisions along with some knowledge of specialised fields.” In other words, the personnel
development of an executive is a very important aim of management education; so is the need
for preparing future executives in business.
It may be summed up that the primary objectives of executive development are : (i) to provide
adequate leaders; (ii) to increase the efficiency of performance of existing executives; (iii) to
serve as a means of control in operations; (iv) to train managers for higher assignment who
show potential for grow greater than those of their colleagues; (v) to prepare them for adaptation
to changes, environmental, ideological and technological; and (vi) to development a unity of
purpose and improve morale.
The causes of, rate of factors which bring about, management development programmes may
be stated thus:
(i) The rapid rate of technological and social change in society has necessitated the training of
managers so that they may cope with these developments.
(ii) The introduction of automation, intense market competition from foreign countries, the
growth of new markets in the underdeveloped countries, enlarged participation of labour
in management, and greater interest by the public and the government in the actions of
businessmen have all led to the need for the development of managerial personnel.

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