Developing Managers: The Functional, the Symbolic, the Sacred and the Profane [*].

This paper offers a new perspective on international
al management by examining the role of culture and management development in creating international
al expertise, a sense of identity and realizing organizational control. A critical analysis of the culture transmission and management development philosophy and practice of a UK-based transnational reveals how the transmission of culture accomplishes management development objectives, while management development itself serves as a vehicle for the transmission of the desired corporate values. This recursiveness is sustained by a corporate ideology that urges the creation of integrative values and, in turn, is legitimized by the quest for favourable functional and symbolic consequences.

Descriptors: management training and development, culture, ideology, functionalism, symbolism

Reconciling headquarter-subsidiary interests while maintaining a......

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Title: Developing Managers
Approximate Word Count: 11653
Approximate Pages: 47 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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