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Empowering Students: A Pragmatic Philosophical Approach to Management Education.
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Dispenza, Vincenzo – Management Learning, 1996
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,…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
The Emergent Manager and Processes of Management Pre-learning.
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Watson, Tony J. – Management Learning, 2001
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)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Selection, Learning Strategies, Management Development
What About the Workers? Studying the Work of Management Educators and Their Orientations to Management Education.
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Danieli, Ardha; Thomas, Alan B. – Management Learning, 1999
Reports the results from a small exploratory interview study of university management educators that addresses a variety of questions concerning management education as work. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Employment, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Action Learning and Reflective Practice in Project Environments That Are Related to Leadership Development.
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Smith, Peter A. C. – Management Learning, 2001
Facilitates acquisition of reflective habits by individuals undergoing leadership development in business-related project environments. Highlights links between reflection and action learning. Characterizes the action learning methodology used and contends that this approach forms a sound setting for reflective inquiry. Describes a reflective…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Case Studies, Critical Thinking, Experiential Learning
The Distinctive Questions Developmental Action Inquiry Asks.
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Torbert, William R. – Management Learning, 1999
Defines the questions that are the basis of developmental-action inquiry. Outlines the type of theory and practice that supports and reflects such inquiry, and highlights how different such integrated research/practice is from empirical positivism. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Discovery Learning, Higher Education, Inquiry
Managers and Research: The Pros and Cons of Qualitative Approaches.
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Skinner, Denise; Tagg, Clare; Holloway, Jacky – Management Learning, 2000
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…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Education, Adult Education, Evaluation Methods
The MBA through Women's Eyes--Learning and Pedagogy in Management Education.
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Sinclair, Amanda – Management Learning, 1997
This is an exploratory study of the MBA experience from a female point of view. Interviews with 16 women MBAs yield findings consistent with research that suggests that women prefer to learn and be taught in ways other than traditional MBA approaches. Also addresses the reasons why women teachers are often less valued than their male counterparts.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Higher Education, Learning Processes