Skills Profile Analysis for Management Training

The importance of Management Development as a project to provide Management Training at organisational level is now increasingly realised. However, the difficulty arises in devising a planned, systematic, acceptable stream of inputs specific to the organisational needs. The author, during his tenures as Country Project Manager and Senior U.N. Consultant in several South Asian Countries, had evolved overtime a Managerial Skills Approach (MSA) to meet the Management Training needs in select institutions in developing countries. It was found useful as a specific, systematic method which could be implemented by local analysts.

The MSA approach seeks to identify and analyse management skills actually possessed and skills required for optimum job performance through providing matching skills for identified skills gaps. The process steps are sequential and mutually reinforcing leading to an output outlined into a curriculum.

The gap identification process comprising the actual managerial skills possessed by an individual and the required job related skills stresses the point that the identified gaps are amenable to resolution by a training intervention. The operational steps are participative in character to assure fullest implementation. (jacket)