Managerial Skills: Explorations in Practical Knowledge

There is growing awareness that business schools need to teach students how to be managers rather than to teach about management. In Managerial Skills, leaders of this skill development movement provide comprehensive coverage on how to set up and evaluate a management skills programme in a university or business setting.

Table of Contents:
Foreword - Lyman Porter Introduction - John D Bigelow PART ONE: ISSUES IN DEVELOPING MANAGERIAL SKILLS PROGRAMS Beyond the Wall - Timothy T Serey and Kathleen S Vanderber Resolving Issues of Educational Philosophy and Pedagogy in the Teaching of Managerial Competencies PART TWO: APPROACHES TO LEARNING MANAGERIAL SKILLS Bringing Management Skill Education into the Mainstream - David A Whetten et al Executive Challenge - Using the Outdoors to Develop the Personal Action Skills of MBA Students - Graham Elkin A Humanistic Approach to Leadership Skill-Building - William P Ferris Creating Realistic Interactions Using Actor-Enhanced Role Plays - Vicki S Kaman, Cynthia Bentson and Waldo R Jones The Application of Interactive Personal Computer Cases to Teaching Managerial Action Skills - Joan G Dahl Faculty Intent and Student Outcome in Graduate Management Education - Richard E Boyatzis PART THREE: ASSESSING MANAGERIAL SKILLS Assessment Center Technology - Renee V McConnell and John W Seybolt One Approach for Integrating and Assessing Management Skills in the Business School Curriculum A Preliminary Study - Ralph Mullin and Paul Shaffer The Assessment Center Method of Teaching Basic Management Skills Giving an Action Exam - John D Bigelow An Evolving Art Examining the Exam - Glenn M McEvoy Ruminations on the Development of a Management Action Skills Assessment Procedure PART FOUR: INSIGHTS INTO MANAGERIAL SKILLS Developing Key Intervention Skills on Four Organizational Levels - David Coghlan and Nicholas S Rashford Issues in Communications Skills Training - Ray Rasmussen Experiences with Interaction Skills Development - Ken S Keleman, Kathi J Lovelace and Joseph E Garcia A Situational Approach Management Skill Development - Melvin R McKnight What it is. What it is not. Education and Empowerment - Robert E Quinn, Neil B Sendelbach and Gretchen M Spreitzer A Transformational Model of Managerial Skills Development Afterword - John D Bigelow