ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an approach which both advances the academic conceptualisation of international management development but, importantly, also provides practitioners with a useful approach to management development design which transcends the excessively narrow approaches too often found in individual international management development articles. It also provides an in-depth look at the international management development literature and a short snapshot view of the directions in which management development has been progressing today. The chapter describes as an ethnocentric orientation which is focused on similarities between the development needs across national boundaries which has faith in the universality of management functions, and global applications of the North American management development model. It illustrates that in looking at international leadership and management development, the literature on national and international culture makes a contribution to understanding one set of influential components.
