How to design and deliver management education with sustained focus on the actual work of managing

What is it about?

First a critique of the way most management education is ethnocentric (maybe colonialist in effect if not intent); how it blindly replicates the divisiveness of academic disciples (accounting, finance, operations, OB etc) even though organisational and business challenges never come so neatly packaged; and how it makes so little use of the experience and contributions of learners. Second, an example of how to do it differently by sharing ownership amongst a worldwide consortium of providers, organising modules by 'managerial mindsets' rather than technical content, and involving participants and faculty equally.

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Why is it important?

Managing - in business and public institutions - can be huge influential on the lives of the people who do it, who its done to, and wider society. But too often it is treated as if it were just a collection of techniques - and that these are or should be the same the world over, as if context makes no difference, and more than personal morality and commitment. As well as exposing the causes of this, we illustrate our argument with the concrete example of a program that does it differently.

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