Serap HEPKAYA*, Sevgi SAR*°

*Ankara University,Faculty of Pharmacy,Department of Pharmaceutical Management, 06100 Ankara-TURKEY
°Correspondence

Summary:
Management is the integration of studies carried out to reach the most efficient and the most convenient result by achieving cooperation in the enterprise and by unification in production elements.The manager is the person who works in an appropriate manner to reach organizational objectives with the aid of subordinates in the organization.In recent years management is considered as a different field of work and as a result ,organizations give more importance to development of their managers.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not manager training programs are being used and to determine which type of program they use if they apply those programs,in the Turkish Drug Industry.
In this study 19 questions are asked to managers of human resources departmants or staff personel of 51 firms in Istanbul.38 of these 51 firms are members of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers´Association and 13 are not, but these 13 firms also use the rights of the association.
In this study, it was observed that a mojority of the managers in Turkish Drug Industry participate in specialized, manager education activities twice a year.These specialized training programs are applied by various methods both inside and outside the firm.In the programs applied inside the firm;it is decided that handing over responsibility is the most important method, then working under a chief and reporting preparation.Job rotation is regarded as unimportant.Amoung the programs applied outside the firm;role-playing, case study,seminars and cources were regarded as important.After the application of these programs an increased success was observed in the organization.

Key words:
Management, Manager, Manager Training Programs, Turkish Drug Industry.