Teaching and Learning Methods in Management Development

The ‘design’ of management development programmes is usually seen by practitioners in the field as a matter of choosing the methods appropriate to the ‘content’ of what they want to teach or the learning they hope to bring about. In a previous paper in this series we have argued that the real difference between programmes, which determines the extent to which they achieve their goals, lies in the assumptions which are embodied in them, usually implicitly, about how people learn.