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Managerial Resource Development in Peru: Directions and Implications*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert R. Rehder
Robert R. Rehder*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of North Carolina
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In Peru, as in most Latin American republics, managerial manpower development is gaining increased recognition as a major force in the modernization process. The explosive contemporary evolution of management education with new programs developing in every conceivable form and institution in Peru strongly evidences the North American concept of specialized higher education for administration, as well as its theory and curriculum. However, Peru's development of effective managerial resources is directly related to its unique social economic system within which they function. What may be sound and efficient management practice in the United States may be largely ineffective when taught within the widely different cultural and economic environment of Peru. In fact, the North American concept of managerial efficiency must be redefined in relation to the Peruvian value system and environmental constraints within which it must operate.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 571 - 586
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1968

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*

This paper is based on two years of experience as a member of Stanford University's Faculty Team, which planned and founded the first Graduate School of Business in Latin America: ESAN in Lima, Peru.

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