The document discusses various methods for developing managers, including understudy assignments, committee assignments, role playing, in-basket exercises, and transactional analysis. Understudy assignments involve subordinates learning directly from senior managers. Committee assignments develop decision-making skills through group deliberations. Role playing allows trainees to develop different perspectives by taking on roles of various managers. In-basket exercises present typical managerial situations for trainees to respond to. Transactional analysis examines interactions between people's child, adult, and parent ego states.