Management Training & Effectiveness

Professional managers have existed in the workplace for only a little more than a century, and the last 25 years have seen an increase in an emphasis not on developing effective managers. This emphasis on management is found not only at the highest levels of the organizations, where it might naturally be expected, but throughout the organization. Team leaders, group leaders, division leaders and other types of leaders have become nearly commonplace, and the term "manager" is viewed--in some organizations--as derogatory and old-fashioned at the same time that "management leadership" is recognized as having increased importance in organizations. This research considers various types of management training techniques, and evaluates those that are likely to succeed.

CAN MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP BE TAUGHT?

While many Americans believe that leaders are born, not made, or that circumstances may cause a particular individual to assume a leadership role that otherwise would escape him or her, many executives believe that management leadership can be taught. In a study from the early 2000s, 81 percent of chief information officers surveyed were of the opinion that leadership can be taught, and 47 percent have participated in management leadership programs at their current employer ("Research," 2003). It is this belief that management leadership can be taught that has given rise to corporate management training as well as degree

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inees are typically from the same organization and often from the same team. When outdoor training is used, the trainees may not be from the same organization, or even from the same industry. The idea is that by removing managers and executives from the everyday world and placing them in an outdoor setting with challenges that few of them have faced, they are forced to rely on each other as both team members and leaders. Typically, the leadership position is rotated among various members of the group, and the teams must accomplish particular tasks. Often, the outdoor exercise is augmented with educational materials that may use the outdoor theme--such as summiting a peak as similar to reaching an organizational objective--with the goal of reinforcing the lessons (Luthans, 1992). Another training technique is that of having authors of management books come into the company and talk about the ideas put forth in those books. Kevin Basik, chief of the Air Force Academy's Foundational Leadership Program, is one such speaker who travels the country offering seminars in a lecture format to groups of managers--and his audiences are nearly always composed of managers rather than nonmanagers. Basik maintains that emotional intelligen
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