Managerial Beliefs about Managing: Implications for Management Training

Abstract

The beliefs that managers hold about managing are likely to influence their reception of management training. Managers' beliefs about what it is important for them to do, about how they should manage, how well they do manage, and about the desirability or possibility of changing how they manage, are likely to affect whether they want to learn and what they may be interested in learning. This article will argue that management teachers need to try and understand how managers think about managing. It will describe the beliefs reported by some middle managers that have implications for management teaching. Beliefs are defined as the acceptance of something as true or real that is not a demonstrable fact.

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