Developing Management Competence ^{2nd Ed.}

Open University Business School Diploma B751 Managing Development and Change

• Session 1 Understanding Management Competence
• 1.1 The Emergence of a Concern for Competence
• 1.2 Ways of Defining Management Competence
• A functional analysis approach to management competence
• A personal characteristics approach to management competence
• Comparing the two approaches
• 1.3 Potential and Limitations of a Competence-Based Appraoch
• Session 2 What Should Managers Do?
• 2.1 Description and Prescription
• 2.2 A View of Management Reality
• 2.3 Essential Components of Management
• 2.4 Reviewing Your Own Practice
• Session 3 Managing Performance: Styles and Relationships
• 3.1 How Should Competent Managers Perform?
• 3.2 Developing an Appropriate Management Style
• The problem of 'feedback'
• 3.3 Developing Appropriate Interpersonal Relationships
• 3.4 Developing Management Competence
• Session 4 Learning and Management in Practice

MBA material, what do you expect?