Explores issues concerning the empowerment of students in management while focusing on the relationship between the educational implications of empowering students and the post-educational experiences of interacting within hierarchical organizations. Explores underlying issues through the thoughts of writers from the neo-Lukacsian,…

Reports on two contributions to the study and understanding of management learning processes. Offers the concept of 'emergent manager' and applies a particular style of analysis to the study of manager selection. Comments on ways in which the roots of management learning can be found. (Contains 39 references.) (DDR)

Contends that managers who undertake action research in the course of their work would benefit from using qualitative methodology. Describes three cases in which practicing managers were supported in their wish to identify and use qualitative approaches in their research. Reflects on the potential for and problems with the wider use of qualitative…