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Author Rapoport, Robert N.

Title Mid-career development : research perspectives on a developmental community for senior administrators / Robert N. Rapoport ; with contributions by M.B. Brodie and E.A. Life
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
Series The International behavioural and social sciences library. Industrial relations ; 9
International behavioural and social sciences library. Industrial relations ; 9
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE THE CONTEXT OF MANAGEMENT TRAINING; 1 General Management: a Perspective; 2 Training for Management: a Historical View; 3 The Administrative Staff College: its Curriculum and Orientation; PART TWO EXPERIENCES OF HENLEY; 4 The Concept of a Developmental Community: The Research Challenge; 5 Client Orientations to the College: Nominators and Prospective Members; 6 The Henley Experience: Retrospective Accounts by Members, 1960-1966
7 The Post Henley Career, 1960-1967PART THREE MANAGERS AND THEIR CAREERS; 8 Types of Managerial Development Pattern; 9 The Metamorphic Development Pattern; 10 The Incremental Development Pattern; 11 The Tangential Development Pattern; PART FOUR FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS; 12 Henley and the Future: Adapting a Developmental Community; 13 Reflections on the Research: the Manager, the Enterprise, and Society; APPENDICES; I List of Variables from the Questionnaire 'Career Patterns and Henley'; II A Note on the McQuitty Hierarchical Linkage Analysis
III List of Variables in Thirteen Key Clusters, and Weights assigned themReferences; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock
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Subject Administrative Staff College (Henley-on-Thames, England)
SUBJECT Administrative Staff College (Henley-on-Thames, England) fast
Subject Management -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain
Age and employment.
Mid-career.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
Age and employment
Management -- Study and teaching
Mid-career
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Brodie, M. B. (Morris Bernard)
Life, E. A. (Edward Andrew)
ISBN 9781136431456
1136431454