A Management Development Program Based on the Experiential Learning Model

Abstract

"Management Development programs have been viewed by many managers as learning experiences where the primary emphasis is the acquiring and remembering of ideas and concepts. Many people have said “the theory is nice but it does not work in the real world. To address this concern, a management development program based on an experiential learning model was developed and implemented in a large computer service organization. The main purpose of the program was to provide the organization and the individual members of the management team with an ongoing management development model. An important feature of the model was the assessment process which used a diagnosis method designed by Marvin Weisbord (1) along with a session in which the data collected through the assessment process was reported back to the members of the management team who directly participated in the development program. "