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The Plight to Choose: Cultivating Practical Deliberation in Management Learning and Education
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Gersel, Johan; Thaning, Morten Sørensen – Journal of Management Education, 2020
Departing from discussions at Research in Management Learning & Education (RMLE) Unconferences, we identify the problem of practical deliberation: When faced with multiple, relevant theories that all demand to be given weight in a process of deliberation, how do management students, while drawing on these theories, justify their choice? Based…
Descriptors: Management Development, Decision Making, Public Administration, Masters Programs
'Business as Usual': Critical Management Studies and the Case of Environmental Sustainability Education
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Dianati, Seb; Banfield, Grant – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
The inclusion of sustainability and ethics teachings in management education for many seems a positive step forward for creating more environmentally just and ethically sound managers. However, the type of knowledge that is privileged and the lack of history in these courses often greenwash the underlying problems inherent with neoliberal…
Descriptors: Ethics, Sustainability, Course Content, Management Development
"Tears, Laughter, Camaraderie": Professional Development for Headteachers
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Woods, Philip A.; Woods, Glenys J.; Cowie, Michael – School Leadership & Management, 2009
This article reports and interprets the findings of a study of headteachers' views and perceptions of continuing professional development (CPD) provision and their ongoing CPD needs and priorities, carried out in 2007 in Scotland, involving headteachers from the primary and secondary sectors. Topic areas in which headteachers generally were most…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Ethics
"Choose the Future Wisely": Supporting Better Ethics through Critical Thinking
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Meisel, Steven I.; Fearon, David S. – Journal of Management Education, 2006
Most people learn and internalize their sense of ethical behavior many years before they assume positions of organizational responsibility. Continued training in ethics helps to develop new understanding and supports ethical behavior. It is also useful to increase the cognitive skills of executives making decisions affecting firms and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Thinking Skills
Developing the Skills for International Business Management: The Implications of the Management Education Opportunity Grid
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Yu, Chwo-Ming Joseph; Guan, Jyh-Liang; Yang, Kuo-Pin; Chiao, Yu-Ching – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2005
This exploratory study addresses two issues: (1) how firms select applicants for positions in international management and, subsequently, evaluate the performance of international business education in Taiwan; and (2) what the important skills for international management professionals are, and how well university graduates are equipped with these…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Administrator Education, Surveys, International Trade
Standards and Certification. Symposium.
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2002
This document contains three papers from a symposium on standards and certification in human resource development (HRD). "Implementing Management Standards in the UK" (Jonathan Winterton, Ruth Winterton) reports on a study that explored the implementation of management standards in 16 organizations and identified 36 key themes and…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies