Manager Development

Just like other employees managers must be developed and rewarded and these are also aspects of staffing.

Manager development is the process of developing programs that will ensure that managers better their skills and expand their knowledge for their jobs and as a whole all aspects of a managers job. These programs may range from formal training to informal techniques such as counselling.

All organizations need manager development because as people grow in the organization, they relax, get complacement and become actually obsolete due to custom and tradition. It is difficult to have perfect management but a good development program will lead to increased productivity.

Reasons (goals) of manager development

•    To impart managers with necessary training, most managers enter the organization at the first level management with little managerial training.
•    Even college educated people usually lack experience and management training.
•    To prepare managers to replace those who leave (this is why most firms have assistant manager positions).
•    To prevent manager obsolescence
Managers must keep up with development in the field of management, otherwise they may become out-dated in their ideas and practices, e.g. results in other areas of the environment, e.g. politics, economic or socio-cultural aspects.
•    superior managers
•    Managers who want to grow in management will want to go to a firm that ensures growth.