Effectiveness of a Strategic Management Development

This paper reports the results of a management development program for 98 engineering and engineering technology managers. Managers ’ ratings of the importance of five management dimensions and their self-rated competence in these five dimensions were assessed prior to and after the completion of a one-week management training program. The results indicate that management development programs for technical personnel can be effective if executive development training programs focus on improving strategy, productivity, leadership and global competition in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains by addressing their problem solving skills, leadership skills, decision making skills, managerial skills, and global competitiveness skills