Abstract: This is a report on the development of Management Aptitude Test (MAT).Management aptitude was defined as a kind of mental trait which covers a wide range of activity, which is a stable potential ability less influenced by instruction. MAT score reflects the potential aptitude rather than realistic achievement reflects the authentic management competency rather than the preparation of the test reflects the reasoning proficiency rather than the memory of certain content of knowledge. Test items were pre-tested and revised twice in 1995 and 1996. There were 2814 middle managers from 149 enterprises in 26 provinces of this country in the norm sample.Statistical results showed that the difficulty and discriminate of MAT were acceptable.kinds of evidences supported the validity of MAT.

Key words: management, personnel management in business, test, aptitude