Management development programs are often regarded as essential for the preparation of managers who are presumed to be responsible for the future success of their organizations. At other times, such programs have been criticized as being irrelevant to the actual practice of management. This paper explores the effectiveness of one management development program from the perspective of its graduates, who reported that the program positively impacted them as well as their organizations. In particular, they perceived that the program had an enormous impact on their career advancement and professional development. Many of the graduates did not believe that the program helped their organizations with management succession planning and achieving gender equity in management. However, the majority perceived that it did increase their organizations’ capacity to remain relevant to their changing environment and to deal with future management challenges, including the management of change.
Like elsewhere in Canada, Alberta responded with significant local government structural adjustment in the immediate postwar decades. Incremental changes and legislative amendments have characterized the approach to local government development. Now in a period of self‐exploration, including the matter of local self‐governance, what are the possible options; how much is dictated by what is already in place; and to what degree is systemic reorganization to meet perceived future need curtailed by the realities of the political marketplace and their own future image? These are the questions addressed by the authors, in formulating an agenda for reform.
Sommaire: Au cours de l'après‐guerre, l'administration municipale de I'Alberta, comme celle du reste du Canada, a connu de profonds bouleversements, caractérisés par des changements graduels et constants mis en force par une série d'amendements législatifs. Audjourd'hui, en cette époque de grande remise en question, qui concerne aussi les gouvernements locaux, quelles sont les options possibles? Quelles sont les contraintes dictées par les structures en place? Dans quelle mesure la réorganisation du système capable de rencontrer les besoins futurs est‐elle limitée par les réalités du jeu politique et par l'idée qu'on s'en fait? Voilà les questions abordées par les auteurs dans leur programme de réforme.
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