ABSTRACT
The generic skills currently developed among business undergraduates at the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) are group working, interpersonal skills, leadership, problem solving and the like. While these are unquestionably relevant and useful in their management careers, they follow a tradition which does not seem to have changed over at least fifteen years. The question arises whether there are relevant skills frequently used in management, which are not presently considered for teaching at university level. If this is so, then university course designers should research them, discover them, know about them-and should design them into courses.
