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40Management developmentManagement development is concerned with improving managers’ performance intheir present roles and preparing them for greater responsibilities in the future. It hasbeen described by Mumford and Gold (2004) as ‘an attempt to improve managerialeffectiveness through a learning process’. In this chapter, the following aspects ofmanagement development are considered:●●●●●●its aims, needs and priorities;its requirements, nature as a business-led process and the elements involved in amanagement development processes;the main management development activities of analysis, assessment andstrategy formulation;approaches to management development with an emphasis on integration, experientialand self-managed learning and personal development planning, and theuse of competency-frameworks and development centres;the concept of emotional intelligence and its use in the development of leadershipskills;the responsibility for management development.