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Effective Management Development Methods

The document outlines various methods for management development programs including decision-making skills training through case studies and simulations, interpersonal skills training using role playing and sensitivity exercises, and developing job knowledge through on-the-job training, coaching, and understudying. It also discusses using organizational knowledge methods like job rotation and committees, general knowledge gains from courses and meetings, and addressing specific individual needs with projects and committee assignments.

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Effective Management Development Methods

The document outlines various methods for management development programs including decision-making skills training through case studies and simulations, interpersonal skills training using role playing and sensitivity exercises, and developing job knowledge through on-the-job training, coaching, and understudying. It also discusses using organizational knowledge methods like job rotation and committees, general knowledge gains from courses and meetings, and addressing specific individual needs with projects and committee assignments.

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METHODS OF MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
METHODS
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Job knowledge
• Organisational knowledge
• General knowledge
• Specific individual needs
Decision-making skills
i) In-basket
• Participant is given
a no of business
papers
• Act on information
contained in the
paper assigning
priority to each
within a given time
frame
Decision-making skills

ii)Case study

•Stimulated business problems


for trainees to solve
•The participant is expected to
study the information and make
decisions based on the situation
Decision-making skills
iii) Business Games
• Simulations that
represent actual
business situation
• Duplicate selected
factors in a specific
situation which is then
manipulated by the
participants
Interpersonal skills

i)Role play
Situation involving
human interaction is
presented then
spontaneous acted
out
It may be real or
imaginary
Interpersonal skills
ii) Sensitivity training
• Method of changing
behaviour through
unstructured group
interaction
• Primary focus
reducing inter
personal friction
Job knowledge
i)On-the-job experience
• Most widely used and
most effective
• Learner gets hands on
experience
• Especially useful for
scientific and technical
personnel
• Cost is usually low
Job knowledge
ii)Behaviour modelling
• Learning points
• Modelling
• Role playing
• Social reinforcement
• Transfer of learning
Job knowledge
iii)Coaching
• Trainee placed under
a particular supervisor
• Learn by doing the
work and obtaining
feedback
• There must exist a
healthy and open
relationship between
employee and
supervisor
Job knowledge
iv)Understudy
• A person who is in training to assume the full
responsibility of the position currently held by
the supervisor at a future time
• Supplies the organisation a person with as
much competence as the supervisor
• Involved in decision making by discussing the
daily operation problems
Organisational knowledge
i)Job rotation
• Transferring executives from job to job and
department to department
• Gives the managers diversified skills and
broader outlook
ii)Multiple management
• Permanent advisory committee of managers
study problems of the company and make
recommendations to the higher management
• Junior board of executives-discuss actual
problems and find alternate solutions
General knowledge
i)Special courses
Workshops or executive development programmes
organised by institutions, universities and
colleges
ii)Special meetings
Meetings organised in consumer’s forum, voluntry
organisations etc
iii)Specific readings
Articles published by various journals or specific
portions in books etc
Specific individual needs
i)Special projects
Trainee is put on a project closely related to the
objectives of the department

ii)Committee assignment
An adhoc committee is appointed to discuss,
evaluate and offer suggestions relating to an
important aspect of business

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