Abstract
It is widely reported that leadership and its development are important to organisational performance and sustainability. Such development, arguably, contributes to a greater leadership capacity; or a leadership capacity better aligned or better positioned to shape the organisational strategic context. The view is adopted, with this study, that fundamental frameworks are required in strategic human resource management and leadership development for leadership development to be effective in organisations. This study, in light of the aforementioned, sets off to explore architecture for organisational leadership development. Such architecture comprises of contextual considerations together with choices associated to those considerations. The choices exercised affect the leadership development system. Understanding those considerations and logics to choices, allows for an appreciation of organisational strategic context, and leadership development systems, to discern an optimal function of a development system or design one...
D.Phil. (Human Resource Development)