Any attempt to improve current or future management performance by imparting knowledge, changing attitudes, or increasing skills is called?

• A. Management Development
• B. Action Research
• C. Evaluate
• D. Implement

Answer: (A)

Management development is about strengthening how managers perform today and how they will perform in the future through learning experiences that build knowledge, shift attitudes, and increase skills. The described aim—to improve current or future management performance by imparting knowledge, changing attitudes, or increasing skills—fits this purpose exactly, since it focuses on developing managerial capabilities.

Action research centers on investigating and improving practices through cycles of inquiry, rather than a planned training program. Evaluate is about measuring performance or outcomes, not building capabilities. Implement means putting plans into action, which can be part of development but doesn’t by itself define the activity of developing managers.