Measuring Corporate Management and Leadership Capability

Andy Neely, Dina Gray, Mike Kennerley and Bernard Marr

The Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership commissioned the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management to produce for them a report investigating the case for corporate reporting and disclosure in the field of organisational management and leadership. The report that follows is the result of that investigation.

In producing this report the Centre for Business Performance has deliberately drawn on a wide range and diverse set of literatures and ideas, ranging from the challenges facing managers and leaders through to corporate reporting and performance measurement frameworks. In doing so the authors have reached the conclusion that the increasing pressures on organisations, the growing interest in corporate reporting and disclosure and the increasing recognition that many of the drivers of the business value are intangible, all make it likely that organisations will be required by the investor community to release information on the status of both their current and potential management and leadership talent pool in the medium to long term. Legislation may speed up this process, but the reality is that investors increasingly appear to be interested not only in short term financial results, but also in the drivers of long term success and value. Many of them are now recognised to be intangible and all of them are steered by the corporation's managers and leaders.