Abstract
Changes that impact on organisations require of managers to accept responsibility for their self-development to remain effective. The aim of this research was to evaluate a self-development programme for managers in a corporate pharmacy group. A two-group true experimental design with pre-, post, and post-post testing was used. A total of 35 managers were randomly divided into an experimental (n = 18) and control group (n = 17). The following measuring instruments were used for the evaluation of the programme: The Personal Orientation Inventory, the Generalised Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale, the COPE-Questionnaire and a knowledge test. The results showed that participants showed higher Synergy and Feeling reflection and greater self-efficacy following the self-development programme.
Highlights
Grant (2000) emphasises that the striving for continuing professional development should be an internal quality of professionals and that they should naturally adapt to the concept of development and competence
Research in a corporate pharmacy group shows that most of the managers prefer a quiet environment, dislike intrusions and interruptions and experience some problems communicating (Rothmann, Rothmann, Van Rensburg & Malan, 2000)
The results show that the individuals who participated in the self-development programme had a greater synergistic awareness, which means to see opposites in life as meaningful, rather than as antagonistic
Summary
Research (Cilliers & Wissing, 1993; Rothmann & Sieberhagen, 1997) shows that methods directed at facilitating psychologically optimal functioning are applicable to the stimulation of selfdevelopment. Olivier and Rothmann (1999) and Els, Linde and Rothmann (2001) evaluated self-development programmes directed at the stimulation of an internal locus of control. These development programmes showed promising results, none of them were directed at stimulating self-development of managers in a corporate pharmaceutical environment. The general objective of this research was to determine the effect of a selfdevelopment programme for managers in a corporate pharmaceutical environment
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