List of figures ............................................. ix
List of tables .............................................. xi
About the contributors .................................... xiii
PART I. Development management: concepts and theories ........... 1
1 Development management: a conceptual and theoretical
overview ..................................................... 3
JUSTICE NYIGMAH BAWOLE, FARHAD HOSSAIN, ASAD K. GHALIB,
CHRISTOPHER J. REES AND AMINU MAMMAN
2 Development management in the developing world: past
pathways and future trajectories ............................ 23
JUSTICE NYIGMAH BAWOLE, MOHAMMED IBRAHIM, FARHAD HOSSAIN
AND JAMES KWAME MENSAH
3 Ethics, values and development management ................... 36
ANTHONY SUMNAYA KUMASEY JUSTICE NYIGMAH BAWOLE, FARHAD
HOSSAIN AND MOHAMMED IBRAHIM
PART II. Development management: capacity building and
performance management ......................................... 53
4 Nationalization strategies in the Gulf Co-operation
Council (GCC) countries: a human resource development
(HRD) perspective ........................................... 55
LA'ALEH AL-AALI AND CHRISTOPHER J. REES
5 National managerial talent development in the Ghanaian
mining industry: comparative assessment of Western and
indigenous approaches ....................................... 68
NANA YAW OPPONG
6 Building effective provincial administration in Thailand:
the role of performance management .......................... 84
NICHA SATHORNKICH, PIYAWADEE ROHITARACHOON, DEREK
ELDRIDGE AND FARHAD HOSSAIN
7 Capacity development for civil service reform in Croatia .... 98
BEJAN DAVID ANALOUI AND FARHAD ANALOUI
8 Training entrepreneurs and policy makers for poverty
reduction in Africa: spirituality in business
perspective ................................................ 114
AMINU MAMMAN, HAMZA B. ZAKARIA AND MOTOLANI A. ACBEBI
PART III. Development management: actors, practices and
lessons ....................................................... 129
9 Navigating through the maze of development actor
pluralism: actor interfaces and development management in
Africa ..................................................... 131
JUSTICE NYKJMAH BAWOLE AND FARHAD HOSSAIN
10 Managing local development in Africa: empirical evidence
from Northern Ghana ........................................ 147
FRANCIS NANGBEVIEL SANYARE, FARHAD HOSSAIN AND
CHRISTOPHER J. REES
11 HRM in small and medium-sized enterprises in China:
towards a theoretical framework of determinants and
HRM practices .............................................. 163
SHAOHENG LI AND CHRISTOPHER J. REES
12 Empowerment through small business development in
Alexandra, South Africa .................................... 177
PATRICIA AGUPUSI
13 Existing governance structure in international NGOs:
a constraint to organizational decision-making
CAROL BRUNT
14 Managing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in
developing countries: lessons from a local district in
Ghana ...................................................... 203
ALBERT AHENKAN
15 Public-private partnerships in highways: the Indian
experience ................................................. 218
MANISHA VERMA
16 Lessons from Pakistan's project implementation failures:
an appraisal ............................................... 234
IRAM A. KHAN AND ASAD K. GHALIB
17 Development management and practice: concluding
remarks and lessons learnt ................................. 248
JUSTICE NYIGMAH BAWOLE, FARHAD HOSSAIN, ASAD K. GHALIB,
CHRISTOPHER J. REES AND AMINU MAMMAN
Index ...................................................... 252
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