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- Title
Crafting Competitiveness: Toward a New Paradigm for Executive Development.
- Authors
Vicere, Albert A.; Graham, Kenneth R.
- Abstract
One traditional paradigm has tended to frame executive-development efforts in many organizations. This paradigm has as its focus the executive as individual. Organizations that subscribe to this paradigm tend to give little attention to the role executive development can play in organizational development and in strategy implementation. Although this traditional paradigm frames the executive-development practices of many organizations, a few companies share a different view. For these companies, executive development is more than just a vehicle for individual development--it is a mechanism for cultivating the collective managerial talents, perspectives, and capabilities that can help propel an organization into the future. These companies are helping to create a new, more strategic paradigm for executive development. In this paper, we discuss the challenge faced by organizations attempting to shift toward this emerging paradigm for cultivating managerial and executive talent. We draw on the experiences of five of these new-paradigm companies to examine the potential benefits that can accrue to an organization when it adopts this strategic approach to developing organizational capability and crafting competitiveness.
- Subjects
ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; STRATEGIC planning; ORGANIZATIONAL change; ORGANIZATION; COMPETITION
- Publication
Human Resource Planning, 1990, Vol 13, Issue 4, p281
- ISSN
0199-8986
- Publication type
Article