1st Edition
Development Management Theory and practice
PART I Development management: concepts and theories
1 Development management: a conceptual and theoretical overview Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain, Asad K. Ghalib, Christopher J. Rees and Aminu Mamman
2 Development management in the developing world: past pathways and future trajectories Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Mohammed Ibrahim, Farhad Hossain and James Kwame Mensah
3 Ethics, values and development management Anthony Sumnaya Kumasey, Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain and Mohammed Ibrahim
PART II Development management: capacity building and performance management
4 Nationalization strategies in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries: a human resource development (HRD) perspective La’aleh Al-aali and Christopher J. Rees
5 National managerial talent development in the Ghanaian mining industry: comparative assessment of Western and indigenous approaches Nana Yaw Oppong
6 Building effective provincial administration in Thailand: the role of performance management Nicha Sathornkich, Piyawadee Rohitarachoon, Derek Eldridge and Farhad Hossain
7 Capacity development for civil service reform in Croatia Bejan David Analoui and Farhad Analoui
8 Training entrepreneurs and policy makers for poverty reduction in Africa: spirituality in business perspective Aminu Mamman, Hamza B. Zakaria and Motolani A. Agbebi
PART III Development management: actors, practices and lessons
9 Navigating through the maze of development actor pluralism: actor interfaces and development management in Africa Justice Nyigmah Bawole and Farhad Hossain
10 Managing local development in Africa: empirical evidence from Northern Ghana Francis Nangbeviel Sanyare, Farhad Hossain and Christopher J. Rees
11 HRM in small and medium-sized enterprises in China: towards a theoretical framew
Biography
Justice Nyigmah Bawole is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, University of Ghana Business School, Ghana.
Farhad Hossain is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute (GDI), School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, UK.
Asad K. Ghalib is Lecturer in Management Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Christopher J. Rees is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Change and Development at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK.
Aminu Mamman is a Reader at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.
