Abstract:
DURANTE años, directivos de todas las partes del mundo han pasado por seminarios y cursillos para aprender a ser mejores líderes. Los resultados sin embargo han sido desiguales. En unos casos la percepción es de que no se ha mejorado mucho. En otros casos ni siquiera se ha podido estar seguro de si... Ver más
FOR years, executives from all over the world have taken part in seminars and workshops
to learn how to become better leaders. However, results have been uneven. In some cases,
participats have the perception of not having improved much. In other cases participants
are not even sure of having improved at all. The explanation for these poor results is not
straightforward. The design of the course might have been erroneous, the methods, the
teachers, the environment, either some of these, or all of them simultaneously. To clarify
this situation it is necessary to go into each of these factors in depth, and to defi ne their
importance in the search of effectiveness in management development.
Based on an approach that puts working patterns before specifi c techniques, in this work
a thorough review of the following aspects is carried out: current requirements of the
management function, and the elements (axes) involved in any management development program (what, who, where and how to develop). Then, fi ve guidelines to improve the effectiveness of such programs are proposed, which take into account the key findings of the behavioral sciences.
In this paper, it is shown that management development is a systematic process of selfupdating (developing managers). In this process, the attitude and the effort of the executive as the subject of this learning procedure is much more relevant than the methods.
Therefore, there is a need to develop new ways of approaching leadership, to carry out
more applied research on the effectiveness of different methods, and to create new models to guide us in fi nding the best results, which take into consideration the peculiarities of this situation.
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