This section of the website describes the five Stages of Development, as they apply to management, groups, and organizations. It explains how each Stage handles a variety of organizational issues, manage-
ment functions, employee matters, collaboration, communication, information, planning, problem solving, and decision making. These examples also serve to trace the progress of development in specific organizational and management areas.
This material gives you a good feel for each Developmental Stage. You can also see how the treatment of each issue changes from Stage to Stage, as managers and their organizations develop. Understanding these differences in Stage will be very helpful in reading any of the other materials on this website.
This section will best be understood if you have first read Section 1, “A Model of Development.” Like Section 1, this material is unlikely to be found anywhere else in the fields of management science and organization science. |
