Developing Management Competence, 2^nd Ed.

Managing Development and Change -- Unit 4

The Open University

Publisher: The Open University, 1997

ISBN: 0-7492-7944-3

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• Session 1 Understanding Management Competence
• 1.1 The Emergence of a Concern for Competence
• 1.2 Ways of Defining Management Competence
• A functional analysis approach to management competence
• A personal characteristics approach to management competence
• Comparing the two approaches
• 1.3 Potential and Limitations of a Competence-Based Appraoch
• Session 2 What Should Managers Do?
• 2.1 Description and Prescription
• 2.2 A View of Management Reality
• 2.3 Essential Components of Management
• 2.4 Reviewing Your Own Practice
• Session 3 Managing Performance: Styles and Relationships
• 3.1 How Should Competent Managers Perform?
• 3.2 Developing an Appropriate Management Style
• The problem of 'feedback'
• 3.3 Developing Appropriate Interpersonal Relationships
• 3.4 Developing Management Competence
• Sesion 4 Learning and Management in Practice