Thesis (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / Research shows that identifying and developing new leaders should be a leader’s primary focus due
to the impact it has on the productivity, performance and sustainability of the organisation.
The Young Lions Programme was a leadership development programme for high-potential
supervisory staff implemented by a major South African financial institution’s retail banking division in
the Western Cape region in 2006. The programme ran for three years until it was discontinued in 2008
due to the organisation implementing a national leadership development programme for all team
leaders. Many of the organisation’s other regions still run development programmes for high-potential
staff. However, the Western Cape region has not implemented another programme aimed specifically
at high-potential staff since 2009. The effectiveness of the programme was never measured, nor was
any research conducted to determine best practices for leadership development programmes.
The aim of this research report is therefore to analyse the success of the programme through
qualitative analysis by measuring the data gathered against the objectives originally set for the
programme. Furthermore, this report aims to identify best practices in leadership development through
the completion of a literature review and to make recommendations to the organisation for future
leadership development programmes.
The findings of this report are that the programme was successful in many aspects as demonstrated
by the positive responses from the respondents to the questionnaire, and by the data analysed from
the organisation’s database. Notwithstanding the success of the programme, responses from the
questionnaire as well as the relevant research suggest that improvements can be made to the
programme to increase its effectiveness in identifying, developing and retaining leaders in the
organisation.
These recommendations are summarised in the final chapter of this report.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/8520 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Gregory, Natasha |
| Contributors | Van Dyk, Laetitia, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Graduate School of Business. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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