Management Development at Ciba Geigy:

What is Management Development?Any attempt to improve current or future management performance by imparting

knowledge, changing attitude or increasing skills.

At the early stage of the management development at Ciba Geigy A separate staff unit

was created called ‘executive development ’ a whose role was to assure a supply of

qualified managers for the line management position. .

At the early stage of the management development program the system we developed

Worked mainly with the executive group within each company where the immediate

preoccupation with succession was highest. After that Ciba-Geigy expanded the process

to reach young generation of high potential in the organization and to increase the supply

of them over time.

Management Development Structure

1.Management development staff unit consist of 14 people.

Seven of them works in management education, running and organizing in-house and

external training course.

Others 7 are dealing with succession planning, recruitment, job rotation and MD plans.

2.Central management development program emphasized on 2100 employees.

This program is provided for three types of management position.

1. Senior Executive of Top Management

2. The potential executives at lower and middle management position.

3. Line Management

Objective’s of Ciba-Geigy’s Management Development:

1.Planning executive succession for the whole group on the basis of corporate ,divisional

and group company MD planning reports,

2.Identifying potential executives and plan their next development steps;

3.Monitoring the quality and age structure of each unit’s executive and potential

executive population.

4.Setting up career moves and job rotation for both executive and potential executive

totaling about 300 per year.

5.Coordination of moves of obsolete executive into new positions to give them new

incentives and added motivation

6.Educational development of all executives and the potential executives through the

internal in house and external (business school) management Course.

The role of Management development:

1.Conceptual i.e Policy and system development

2.Pedagogical i.e Assignment and coordination of management training activities.

3.Advisory.

So the three basic things of Ciba-Geigy’s Management development program are

a.MD plan

b.Training Program of MD

andc.MD’s role in executive appointments.