ABSTRACT
Management development may be defined as those activities designed to provide the organization with a competent management team which is able to meet its short-, medium- and long-term objectives. These activities should include: the improvement of managers' techniques in planning and controlling the organization's structure and resources, the acquisition of new information on the environment, and helping managers adapt their attitudes or mental modes. The senior management of an organization must therefore ensure that adequate plans and resources exist to recruit, motivate, train, develop, and retain its existing and future management. In order to identify likely successors in the first place it is usual to ask each member of management to nominate those he or she considers to be most suitable as successors. As well as a succession plan, individual training and development programmes have to be designed. Obviously management development will continue to be concerned with the development of an individual's functional skills.
