Developing leaders and managing development
Management development and, in particular, developing leaders is a first priority in the management of international human resources today. Paul Evans identifies two current views and groups of leaders -- those who are 'expertise' oriented and lead by their technical authority, and 'generalists', who lead by management skills. They are distinguished in various ways such as their attitudes towards delegation and sensitivity to matching jobs and personalities. Leadership development is best pursued by encouraging managers to be mobile between functions. Changing careers significantly once or twice leads to a 'layered career development', allowing the development of individuals who are able to balance the skills of professional expertise and generalist leadership.
Management Development in a Changing World
Presents a personal view from a business school perspective on some of the issues in an era of rapid change and internationalization of business, facing management development – defined here as programmes and activities specifically provided to enhance the knowledge, abilities and achievements of managers.
“To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater
Building on Judith Butler ’ s understanding of visibility as “ the object of continuous regulation and contestation, ” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “ her-story ” theater as a unique site where Western “ gender-/sexuality-inclusive ” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and military hosts, and ﬁ ndings from a wider research project on contemporary British military culture, we reveal the key role of heteronormative and patriarchal cultural discourses in reproducing the ambivalent positionalities of women/LGBT+ soldiers. We argue that the very visibility of women/LGBT+ soldiers on the stage paradoxically operates to make the complexities of – and struggles against – masculinized heteronormative military cultures invisible. Furthermore, despite artists ’ attempts to dissociate empowerment through soldiering from the problematic context of modern con ﬂ icts, “ her-story ” theater ultimately entrenches gendered/racialized hierarchies that normalize Western military interventions. We conclude that only through sustained feminist re ﬂ ection on the contours of “ imagined ” futures of female/ LGBT+ soldiering can this persistently problematic (in)visibility be productively disrupted.