Abstract
By taking a skills approach to management some severe questions and practical implications arise for management education and training. These will be first set out in simple terms, then analysed in depth. The main problem is to define the nature of managerial skill. Like all skills, it can be approached in a broad way through defining objectives or standards of performance, i.e. the macro-level of definition. Alternatively, it can be defined narrowly when it is regarded as a sequential process, where timing of exact acts achieves a defined single purpose at a precise instant, i.e. the micro-level of definition. One of the main problems in all skills definition is integrating the macro-level descriptions with the micro-level, for skills when performed expertly are both superb totalities and exquisite individual acts. So how can this be achieved?
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Randell, G.A. (1981). Management Education and Training. In: Singleton, W.T. (eds) Management Skills. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9476-4_15
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