Chapter 13 Sustainable Management Education: A Graduate Skills Approach

Abstract

Scholars in Management Learning (Goleman, 1998; Hambrick, 1994; Kayes, 2002; Wegner, 1998) emphasize the importance of providing “real-world” learning opportunities that transcend the theoretical or are academically self-reinforcing. Senge, Kleiner, Roberts, Ross, and Smith (1994, 1997) indicate that to over-come reliance on theoretical models that do not represent organizational reality or management as practiced, inter-disciplinary, action learning, and experiential styles of education are most appropriate as they do not seek to reduce complexity or eliminate paradox. Whittington (1996) refers to this approach to management learning as “management as practiced” and Balogun (2006) uses the term the “management practice turn.”

Citation

Ayson, S. (2011), "Chapter 13 Sustainable Management Education: A Graduate Skills Approach", Eweje, G. and Perry, M. (Ed.) Business and Sustainability: Concepts, Strategies and Changes (Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Vol. 3), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 293-308. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-9059(2011)0000003021