scholarly journals The Increasing Importance of Curriculum Design and Its Implications for Management Educators

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
George A. Hrivnak
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Constructive Alignment ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
Business And Management

In this essay, I explore the topic of curriculum design in business and management education from the perspective of my current role as Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching. Using Biggs’s constructive alignment as an organizing framework, I summarize a number of challenges for management educators and administrators in the design and evaluation of programs and courses and highlight the increasing complexity of the task. I conclude by arguing that, from an associate dean’s perspective, management educators must increasingly adopt the role of designer, rather than teacher, and offer suggestions to help with that transition.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development in Business Education

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1347-1366
Author(s):  
Fernando Lourenço ◽  
Natalie Sappleton ◽  
Weng Si Lei ◽  
Ranis Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Business And Management

This chapter highlights the challenges of teaching sustainability in business schools. The authors provide a discussion of economic liberalism and different forms of stakeholder theory to explain the varying attitudes among educators towards ethics, responsibility and sustainability. The assumption that business schools encourage a ‘profit-first-mentality' is fleshed out, and it is argued that this attitude likely affects the effectiveness of teaching and learning in respect to ethical, responsible and sustainable values. The chapter later questions whether it is better to flow with the dominant economic-driven values as prescribed by conventional business education or to challenge it in order to nurture sustainability-driven values among students. These options are explored and the suggestion that entrepreneurship has a role to play as a pedagogical tool to support the teaching of sustainable development is offered. It is argued that entrepreneurship does not confront, but supports the extant values of conventional business education and therefore is a feasible approach for business education. Finally, implications for business and management education, as well as, the role of entrepreneurship to promote sustainability-values are discussed drawing on models and two case studies (UK and China).

Plowing a Fertile Ground for Transformative Management Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Sergio A. Castrillon-Orrego
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Educational Framework ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Fine Tune

This article argues in favor of a holistic and ethically grounded educational framework for managers, oriented to fine-tune business with developmental requirements. Considering the multiple environmental, social, and economic challenges the world faces today, business goals are approached in terms of genuine humankind developmental obligations. Acknowledging the urgent need to prevent some eschatological scenarios, a critical and mindful methodology is used to diagnose, evaluate and reorient the role of business and management education. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are proposed as beacons to channel and ethically assess the potential of business to contribute in concrete terms to integral development, using them as prisms through which comprehension, criticisms and transformations can be articulated.

scholarly journals A PRiME perspective on economics curriculum design

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
C. Rashaad Shabab
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Responsible Management ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Sustainable Value

The United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Education initiative aspires to transform the relationship between business and society by ensuring that the next generation of business leaders are shaped by management education that conceptualises businesses as generators of sustainable value. Simplistic economic models overemphasize the role of narrow profit maximization on the part of firms in generating broader economic wellbeing. More nuanced views of the relationships between firms and the societies in which they operate, such as those that allow for market power in product and labour markets, for the presence of externalities in the production of goods and services, for a role of the state in the provision of public goods, and for the existence of market failures more generally, offer profoundly different advice to aspiring practitioners of responsible management. This article proposes an introductory economics curriculum for management students that gives due emphasis to these more nuanced perspectives and thus equips aspiring business leaders with the skills they will need to build profitable enterprises that also fulfil the objective of generating sustainable value as envisioned by the Principles of Responsible Management Education.

Plowing a Fertile Ground for Transformative Management Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-333
Author(s):  
Sergio A. Castrillon-Orrego
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Educational Framework ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
The World ◽  
Integral Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Fine Tune

This article argues in favor of a holistic and ethically grounded educational framework for managers, oriented to fine-tune business with developmental requirements. Considering the multiple environmental, social, and economic challenges the world faces today, business goals are approached in terms of genuine humankind developmental obligations. Acknowledging the urgent need to prevent some eschatological scenarios, a critical and mindful methodology is used to diagnose, evaluate and reorient the role of business and management education. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are proposed as beacons to channel and ethically assess the potential of business to contribute in concrete terms to integral development, using them as prisms through which comprehension, criticisms and transformations can be articulated.

Sustainable Development in Business Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Fernando Lourenço ◽  
Natalie Sappleton ◽  
Weng Si Lei ◽  
Ranis Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Business And Management

This chapter highlights the challenges of teaching sustainability in business schools. The authors provide a discussion of economic liberalism and different forms of stakeholder theory to explain the varying attitudes among educators towards ethics, responsibility and sustainability. The assumption that business schools encourage a ‘profit-first-mentality' is fleshed out, and it is argued that this attitude likely affects the effectiveness of teaching and learning in respect to ethical, responsible and sustainable values. The chapter later questions whether it is better to flow with the dominant economic-driven values as prescribed by conventional business education or to challenge it in order to nurture sustainability-driven values among students. These options are explored and the suggestion that entrepreneurship has a role to play as a pedagogical tool to support the teaching of sustainable development is offered. It is argued that entrepreneurship does not confront, but supports the extant values of conventional business education and therefore is a feasible approach for business education. Finally, implications for business and management education, as well as, the role of entrepreneurship to promote sustainability-values are discussed drawing on models and two case studies (UK and China).

scholarly journals 8. Strategic Approaches to Academic Development: Relationship to Learning and Teaching

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Peter Ling
Keyword(s):  
Academic Development ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Personnel ◽  
Organizational Unit ◽  
Range Of Functions

Most universities in Australia have established at least one organizational unit with a responsibility for academic development. While ‘academic’ could embrace all aspects of the role of academics, including research, innovation, and contributions to community and professional bodies, the expectation is that the focus will be on learning and teaching. In this paper, I address the extent to which – and the sense in which – this is true. I use the results of several surveys conducted in Australia in 2007 and information emerging from a forum of Australian university personnel associated with the development of academics. These sources show that academic development units often perform a range of functions that go beyond the development of learning and teaching. Reviewing the available data, I conclude that the current role of academic developers is very much influenced by strategic pursuits of universities. In this climate, the potential for academic development to operate with the integrity of a practice informed by the disciplined study of learning and teaching is more limited than it was during periods where the understanding of learning and teaching drove the enterprise.

The Current Role of Ethics in Industrial- Organizational Psychology

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Saltzman ◽  
Eric Brasher ◽  
Frank Guglielmo ◽  
Joel M. Lefkowitz ◽  
Walter Reichman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Industrial Organizational Psychology

The current role of gemcitabine in ovarian cancer

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2D) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Robert F. Ozols
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Current Role

Practical consensus recommendations - Current role of immune response evaluation criteria in solid tumors criteria in the management of cancer patients receiving immunotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Purvish M. Parikh ◽  
T. P. Sahoo ◽  
Randeep Singh ◽  
Bahl Ankur ◽  
Talvar Vineet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Solid Tumors ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Response Evaluation ◽  
Consensus Recommendation ◽  
Current Role ◽  
New Class ◽  
Response Evaluation Criteria

Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) are a method used to evaluate and document the response to cancer treatment in solid tumors. The availability of a new class of immuneoncology drugs has resulted in the need to modify RECIST criteria methodology. The first leadership immuno-oncology network (LION) master course brought together experts in oncology and immuno-oncology. Six questions were put to the experts and their opinion, supporting evidence, and experience were discussed to arrive at a practical consensus recommendation. n this nascent field, the availability of a practical consensus recommendation developed by experts in the field is of immense value to the community oncologist and other health-care consultants.

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