Narratives express the richness and diversity of experience and challenge simplistic analyses of management issues. Narrative can be a valuable tool for conveying the reality of managerial situations to participants in management development. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)

Managers in service and manufacturing organizations (n=433) identified top practices for improving their performance as focus, feedback, and learning from experience. There was a disparity between the management development they want and what organizations provide. (SK)

Effective outdoor management development programs have certain features: emotional intensity, psychological safety, consequences, enhancement of self-confidence, use of metaphors, unpredictability, peak performance experiences, multiple skill/knowledge types, development of the whole person, and focus on transfer. They succeed because they sustain…

Provides a classification scheme for computer simulation, role playing, and educational games. Discusses outcomes of each when applied in business and management education and training. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)

A survey of a French business school with multinational branch campuses received 123 usable responses supporting the proposition that cross-cultural differences exist within each of Kolb's learning cycle stages. National profiles of learning preferences were developed for French, German, Spanish, Anglo-Irish, and Eastern European learners. (SK)