Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might play in the formation of new managerial elites. The book examines three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary debate on management education: the profession of management; humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an academic field where management schools could find new inspirations for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of reference extended between two different points of view: the traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social function; and the 'past-modern' view, which is inclined to skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural phenomena.Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational behaviour.
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Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries.
Contents:
Foreword
INTRODUCTIONS
1. A Role for Humanities in the Formation of Managers
Pasquale Gagliardi
2. Forming Managers? A Counterpoint
Barbara Czarniawska
3. A Guide for Readers
Pasquale Gagliardi and Barbara Czarniawska
PART I: MANAGERIAL PROFESSION AT THE START OF THE NEW CENTURY
4. Management Education and the Humanities: The Challenge of Post-Bureaucracy
John Hendry
5. Women and Humanities: Allies or Enemies?
Helene Ahl
6. American Psycho/European Schizo: Stories of Managerial Elites in a Hundred Images
Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert
PART II: MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: IS A HUMANIST REFRAMING POSSIBLE?
7. The Business School in Ruins?
Ken Starkey and Sue Tempest
8. Problematizing and Enlarging the Notion of Humanistic Education
Daniel Arenas
9. Cultivation or Civilization? Popular Management Concepts and their Role in Reshaping the Way Management is Understood
Niels Dechow
PART III: BRINGING HUMANITIES INTO THE HEART OF MANAGEMENT
10. Management as Product of the European Knowledge Tradition: A Modern Form of Ancient Paideia?
Keith Hoskin
11. A Journey Beyond Institutional Knowledge: Dante’s Reading of the Odyssey
Silvia Gherardi
12. Strong Plots: Popular Culture in Management Practice and Theory
Barbara Czarniawska and Carl Rhodes
PART IV: RETHINKING HUMANISM
13. A Philosopher in Public Management
Lars Vissing
14. The Great Narrative of the Sciences and the History of Humanities
Michel Serres
15. Post-Humanist Challenges to the Human and Social Sciences
Karin Knorr Cetina
Afterword
Anthony G. Hopwood
Index
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'Academics and managers who strive for a humanistic management education usually care for people, but they are challenged by sophisticated intellectual subjects and practical problems. The authors' experience, competence and commitment enables them to present an extensive coverage of important views and an in-depth study of these issues.'
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781847203212
Publisert
2007-05-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288