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Contracting to Learn: A Perspective on the Dynamics of Management Development Activities

This paper presents a perspective on management development which I feel to be useful not only in helping to understand the dynamics of management development activities, but also in pointing towards some means of reducing the conflicts which are readily seen to arise in these, as in any other, change processes. Of the wide range of activities currently being carried out under the umbrella of management development, the main focus of this paper is upon what have previously been called ’deliberate educational interventions’[ 1 ]. More particularly, the discussion will centre upon those deliberate educational interventions which