Indicators of Management Capability: Developing a Framework

Penny Tamkin, Jim Hillage, Rebecca Willison, The Institute for Employment Studies

The Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership (CEML) has asked the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to help develop a scheme of national performance indicators to do with the development and utilisation of management and leadership capability, and the performance benefits arising from its application. The framework is designed to: draw public attention to the issue of management and leadership capability within the UK and to inform the review and development of policy. In developing this framework of indicators, the Institute has reviewed a previous framework which focused on management development rather than management capability. We have developed a model of management capability that helps inform the framework and suggest possible indicators. We present this model and discuss some of the linkages between the various stages of the model and some of the other factors that may have an effect.