Management Development in Poland: Building Management Training Capacity With Foreign Partnerships

by Richard Thomas, Department for International Development, UK Staff, Senior Government and Institutions Adviser Staff

From 1990 onwards, the pace of change in Poland has been rapid, and the degree on international involvement has significantly increased. This text examines the role of outsiders in helping Polish individuals and institutions to develop a range of management education and training initiatives. Between 1991 and 1997 a range of international donors worked with Polish counterparts to change the management education and training system in Poland, in order to build sustainable business/training organizations of high quality. The book examines these international funds, particularly the British Government Know How Funded Regional Management Centres project, and looks at their various levels of achievements.

226 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1998

About the author

Nationally recognized for his portrayal of John "John-Boy" Walton, Jr., in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.
Thomas was born Richard Earl Thomas in New York, the son of Barbara (née Fallis) and Richard S. Thomas.[1] in 1951(according to imdb.com). His parents were dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet. He attended The Allen Stevenson School and The McBurney School in Manhattan. Thomas was seven when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) playing John Roosevelt, son of future U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.