Transformative Management Education

The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences

AvUlrike Landfester,Jörg Metelmann

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Due to the recent global financial crises, academic business schools have come in for much criticism, having, in the eyes of the public, failed in their responsibility to society by teaching future managers only how to increase their personal gain without any consideration as to their actions’ social and cultural consequences. Realising that there is a pressing need to innovate their educational offers accordingly, business schools are beginning to turn to the humanities and social sciences to improve on the understanding and thus the teaching of management. This book is the result of an empirical study conducted at eight academic business schools that either already practise or are beginning to practise linking management education to the humanities and social sciences. Gathered mostly in interviews our research team conducted during site visits to these schools, the material presented shows three major fields of concern: how to shift the focus from instrumental to transformative learning, how to reframe the concept of disciplinary subject matter towards a more relational understanding of knowledge—especially in the light of the impact digitalisation is having on education—and how to address the organisational, as well as the political consequences of management education turning towards the inclusion of the humanities and social sciences strategically. The findings indicate that the humanities and social sciences indeed offer knowledge which can significantly help management education with meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century. Innovating management education by making it part of its program portfolios proves a challenge in and of itself in the face of a university system which still determinedly clings to disciplinary segregation. Reforming management education towards an engagement with fields of knowledge traditionally at best ignored and at worst vilified as being completely useless in the "real world" may therefore place academic business schools at the forefront of a movement that is beginning to reshape the educational landscape as a whole. This book will be of value to researchers, academics and students in the fields of business, management studies, organisational studies and education studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Antal sidor:186
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367076733

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Ulrike Landfester is a Professor of German Language and Literature at University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.Jörg Metelmann is Associate Professor of Culture and Media Studies at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

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Foreword, by William M. Sullivan1. Introduction: "There Is Something About the Humanities. . .": Transformative Management Education Meets the Humanities and Social Sciences1.1: The Point of Departure: From the Carnegie Report of 2011 to the "Humanities’ Business" Research Project1.2: Consulting the Map: Historical and Research Notes1.3: On the Way: The "Humanities’ Business" Project’s Research Design1.4: Nearly There: Deciding on Narrative Strategies for the Report1.5: The Point(s) of Arrival: Key Findings and Chapter Structure2. Transforming Education: Philosophies and Practices2.1: "The Primary Focus Is Not the Subject, but the Student": Instrumental versus Transformative Education2.2: "So Basically I Teach Myself": Transformative versus Instrumental Teaching2.3: "There Is No Gap Between Theory and Practice": The Role of Professional Practice in Academic Management Education2.4: "Knowledge You Can’t Google": Practices of Teaching Integrated Management Education2.5: "Transformative Humanities"? Conclusions and Suggestions2.5.1: Students’ Perspective: Start with the First Year2.5.2: Teachers’ Perspective: Dialogical Interaction and ‘Presencing’2.5.3: Perspectives of/on Professional Practice: A Critical Approach3. Transforming Knowledge: Towards Tomorrow’s Needs3.1: "A Successful Catch-all of Nothingness": Concepts of Management3.2: The Something-Factor: What the Humanities (Are Supposed to) Know about Management and Business3.3: Discipline Matters: Concepts of Integrated Knowledge3.4: The Skills of Integration: Conclusions and Suggestions3.4.1: Looking for Management: An Appeal to Business Schools3.4.2: Leaving the Ivory Tower: An Appeal to the Humanities and Social Sciences3.4.3: De-Sexing the Cherry: The Knowledge of Concepts4. Transforming Business Schools: Strategic Challenges4.1: "The Behavioural Complexity of Professors" and Other Internal Challenges4.2: "We Need to be Able to Sell It": External Strategic Challenges4.3: "Politics Is Everywhere": Conclusions and Suggestions4.3.1: Academic Governance Revisited: De-Managerialising Faculty4.3.2: Quality Management Revisited: Measuring Literacies4.3.3: Business Schools’ Branding Revisited: Showcasing Transformative Management Education5. Conclusion: A Business Schools’ Guide to the Galaxy of Transformative Management Education6. Coda: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish7. Afterword, by Matt Statler8. Appendix: Panorama of Cases in Fact Sheets9. Bibliographical References