Assessment Centre technology has the potential to provide a platform for firstly, diagnosing potential candidates' management potential and secondly, training these candidates and developing their management capabilities.

Assessment Centre technology has the advantage of simultaneously providing training and development and hands-on management experience based on realistic simulations. Assessment Centres are widely underestimated as a vehicle for providing needs-based management training and developing There is currently no South African book on the market in this area. The book is based on the logic and sound theoretical principles of the Design Model. The Design Model provides the basis for systematically covering the analysis, design, implementation and the evaluation stages in the Assessment Centre development process.

The Design Model is also superimposed on program evaluation principles where each stage of the model can be evaluated against predetermined criteria.