- Part I - Orgnizational learning - Introduction - Christopher Mabey 1. The leader's new work: building learning organizations - Peter M. Senge 2. Learning organizations - Margaret Dale 3. Why managers won't learn - Graeme Salaman and Jim Butler 4. The factory as a learning laboratory - Dorothy Leonard-Barton - Part II - Assessing and developing competency - Introduction - Christopher Mabey 5. Competency requirement forecasting:issues for international selection and assessment - Paul R. Sparrow and Mario Bognanno 6. The king of competence for rapid change - Tony Cockerill 7. Individual and organizational learning: the pursuit of change - Alan Mumford 8. Empowering learders: are they being developed? - Lynda Gratton and Jill Pearson - Part III - Facilitating development - Introduction - Paul Iles 9. Action learning and excellence in management development - Charles J. Margerison 10. The effects of performance review in appraisal: evidence and implications - Clive Fletcher 11. Career development pratices in the UK: a participant perspective - Christopher Mabey and Paul Iles 12. To coach, or not coach - that is the question 13. Stratgic management development: using experiential learning theory to asses and develop managerial competencies - David Kolb, Stuart Lublin, Juliann Spoth and Richard Baker 14. Applying self-development in organizations - Mike Pedler - Part IV - Developing team effectiveness - Introduction - Christopher Mabey 15. Building a self-directed work team - Richard S. Wellins 16. Dilemmas of teamwork - Rosabeth Moss Kanter 17. Managerial leardership: the key to good organization - Elliott Jaques 18. Job redesing - Mike Marchington 19. Innovative teams at work - Neil Anderson, Gillian Hardy and Michael West - Part V - Managing diverity - Introduction - Paul Iles 20. Valuing differences: the concept and a model - Barbara A. Walker 21. Women in management: organizational socialization and assessment pratices that prevent career advancement - Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe 22. Why executives lose their balance - Joan R. Kofodimos 23. Management development in europe - Mel Berger and Paul Watts