Maturation Stages In Business Organizations: Management Development (cont.)
Stage 3 : Agricultural Approach
- Top management accepts and believes fervently that the attitudes and skills of people (human faculties) are the most important and precious asset of a viable organization. It involves itself in development processes with wholehearted commitment. It knows that all development proceeds in fact from where the individual manager "is", rather than from where it may like him to be or may presume that managers similarly situated typically "are". Thus, it acts positively on the proposition that the most effective development occurs where individual managers actually "are", that this requires sound (professional) appraisal of individuals as a basis for planning balanced programs for development, employing all appropriate means : on-the-job methods, well executed counseling by competent superordinates, and programmed self development, a well as educational programs based on individually identified development needs.