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Tables of Contents for Management Development in Poland
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Boxes
ix
 
Acknowledgements
xi
 
List of Abbreviations
xiii
 
Contributors
xvii
 
Introduction
xix
 
PART I RESPONSES TO TRANSITION
The Polish Context
1
18
Marcin Bielski
Jerzy Dietl
The heritage of the Polish system of university education
1
6
Recent changes in the economic, social and political systems
7
7
Changes in the education system in Poland after 1989
14
5
The Challenge Facing Enterprise Reform and Management Development
19
12
John Henley
Introduction
19
1
The legacy of the command economy
19
1
The state of enterprise management
20
3
The challenge of enterprise restructuring
23
1
Restructuring methodology
24
1
Technology and technical issues
25
1
Financial restructuring of enterprises
26
2
Human resource development
28
1
Implications for technical assistance
29
2
Donor Strategies: a Polish View
31
14
Tadeusz Kozek
Introduction
31
1
Foreign assistance as a process
32
6
Assistance programmes: a comparative analysis
38
6
Conclusion
44
1
The Donor Response
45
22
Introduction
45
1
`Management Box': assistance from the European Union's PHARE Fund
46
2
American assistance
48
3
The Know How Fund
51
4
The German experience with technical assistance to Central and Eastern Europe
55
4
The French experience (France-Pologne Foundation)
59
8
PART II STORIES FROM THE FIELD: CASES AND ISSUES
Institutions and Systems
67
46
Institution building
67
15
Partnerships
82
12
Quality assurance/accreditation
94
19
Developing Software
113
46
Developing trainers
113
10
Products
123
12
Marketing and the markets
135
12
Methods and materials
147
12
The Effectiveness of Training: a Tracer Study
159
14
Simon Earp
Introduction
159
1
Methodology
159
1
Sample and response rates
160
1
Participants' questionnaire
161
4
Employers' questionnaire
165
4
Conclusion
169
4
PART III TOWARDS THE FUTURE
Issues to be Resolved: Past and Present
173
20
Michael J. Thomas
Peter W. Turnbull
Nigel Holden
Early encounters and a personal prognosis
173
2
The way forward
175
3
Marketing: a driver of change
178
8
The reorientation of management language
186
7
The Longer Term
193
10
Michael Hardy
The diversity of provision
197
1
Personal development for individual managers
197
1
The development of `competencies'
198
1
Flexibility of access to Polish capability and capacity
198
2
The potential of new technologies
200
1
How should Poland's management educators respond?
201
2
Conclusion
203
6
Richard Thomas
Education reform and the role of the MBA
204
1
Ownership of business schools
205
1
Complacency or renewal?
206
1
Insitutional entanglements
206
3
Appendix I Socioeconomic Data on Poland (1994)
209
2
Appendix II Selective Bibliography of English-language Sources on Poland Nigel Holden
211
6
Index
217