Gendering Sustainability in Management Education: Research and Pedagogy as Space for Critical Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 852-886
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Arevalo
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Feminist Organization ◽  
Integration Strategies ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Business Curricula

Gender issues have been well conceptualized in feminist organization studies. However, gender research has had limited practical effects, in part because it has not been well conceptualized in the sustainability in management education (SiME) scholarship; nor has it been adequately prioritized in management and business curricula. I argue that given the persistence of discrimination, segregation, sexual oppression, inequality, and lack of empowerment of women (to name a few . . . ), mandatory gender education is needed to equip management students as they enter diverse and equal opportunity working environments. Integrating SiME and Feminist Organization literatures, I develop a multidimensional framework for conceptualizing gender studies in the classroom. This theoretical framework offers faculty and students an evolving pathway to analyze gender and SiME with perspectives in feminist organization studies. I conclude by reflecting on integration strategies for creating space in research and pedagogy for the critical engagement of gender debates in our programs.

scholarly journals Grand Challenges, Feminist Answers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 263178772110203
Author(s):  
Yvonne Benschop
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Feminist Organization

Feminist organization theories develop knowledge about how organizations and processes of organizing shape and are shaped by gender, in intersection with race, class and other forms of social inequality. The politics of knowledge within management and organization studies tend to marginalize and silence feminist theorizing on organizations, and so the field misses out on the interdisciplinary, sophisticated conceptualizations and reflexive modes of situated knowledge production provided by feminist work. To highlight the contributions of feminist organization theories, I discuss the feminist answers to three of the grand challenges that contemporary organizations face: inequality, technology and climate change. These answers entail a systematic critique of dominant capitalist and patriarchal forms of organizing that perpetuate complex intersectional inequalities. Importantly, feminist theorizing goes beyond mere critique, offering alternative value systems and unorthodox approaches to organizational change, and providing the radically different ways of knowing that are necessary to tackle the grand challenges. The paper develops an aspirational ideal by sketching the contours of how we can organize for intersectional equality, develop emancipatory technologies and enact a feminist ethics of care for the human and the natural world.

scholarly journals Linked(In)g Sport Management Education with the Sport Industry: A Preliminary Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2275
Author(s):  
Samuel López-Carril ◽  
Miguel Villamón ◽  
María Huertas González-Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Management Students ◽  
The Impact

Social media are one of the most valuable management tools used by sport managers in the fulfilment of their daily tasks. However, the studies that share and analyse the impact of educational experiences that incorporate social media into sport management education for professional purposes are scarce to date. Thus, this study presents an educational innovation piloted in a sport management course where LinkedIn—the social media most associated with the professional sphere—is introduced through an experiential learning methodology, as a driver of students’ career development and as a tool to keep up to date and interact with the sport industry. To assess the learning outcomes, a new scale was developed and tested. A total of 90 Spanish undergraduate sport management students (M = 22.71; SD = 3.84) participated in the study, partaking in a pre-test and a post-test. Regarding the results linked to the testing of the scale, the statistical analysis reflects the scale’s two-dimensional nature, explaining 68.78% of the variance, presenting good psychometric properties (α = 0.95). On the other hand, significant increases in all the scale items between the two measures were obtained, with large effects size in the two dimensions (Cohen’s d ≥ 0.80). Therefore, it is concluded that LinkedIn can help to develop the professional profile of sport management students, Linked(In)g what is taught in the classroom with what the sport industry demands.

Experiments with Expert Systems in Management Education

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Malcolm King ◽  
Laurie Mcaulay
Keyword(s):  
Expert System ◽  
Expert Systems ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Simple System ◽  
Expert System Shell ◽  
Educational Requirements ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Simple Systems ◽  
Education Process

A simple system has been developed using expert systems technology to assist lecturers in teaching specific groups of professional and management students. To enable comparisons to be made, two versions of the system were built; one in prolog and one in an inexpensive expert system shell. The systems were designed to relieve lecturers by providing answers and explanations for examination questions in the area of standard costing. The experiments show that such simple systems can be developed by lecturers for their own use, although there are limitations, especially in the knowledge which can be captured. Testing of the system in practice has shown benefits in terms of reduced lecturer load and positive responses from students. The experiments show that integrating simple expert systems into the education process can be beneficial when the technology is adapted to match the educational requirements.

Enriching the intersection of service and transformative learning with Freirean ideas: The case of a critical experiential learning programme in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 579-597
Author(s):  
Rosane Dal Magro ◽  
Marlei Pozzebon ◽  
Soraia Schutel
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Management Students

In this article, we examine the value of combining transformative and service learning pedagogical practices in management education programmes to encourage management students to be more critical and reflexive regarding serious contemporary issues like social inequality and sustainability. We draw on a long-term management education experience conducted in the northeastern region of Brazil, where international students learn how to develop a real-time community-based project with local inhabitants. We argue that while service learning approaches promote pragmatic action-based principles, transformative learning acts at the epistemic level, contributing to change in values. In addition, Paulo Freire’s ideas are integrated to reinforce critical and reflexive dimensions of the learning experience. Our results offer a process-based model showing how a critical experiential learning pedagogy might lead to the development of community-based competences, which, in turn, might lead to changes in the deeply held values of the participants. Freire’s emancipatory ideas are applied not only regarding the relationship between teachers and students, but also to the distinction between Western and non-Western societies, going beyond questioning of the destructive consequences of financial capitalism to question the hegemony of one worldview over all other possible ones.

The Educational Affordances of Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM)

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amarolinda Zanela Klein ◽  
José Carlos da Silva Freitas Junior ◽  
Juliana Vitória Vieira Mattiello Mattiello da Silva ◽  
Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa ◽  
Lucas Baldasso
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Sense Of Presence ◽  
Concrete Experience ◽  
Management Students

The popularity of Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) has prompted educators to integrate it in teaching and learning in higher education. WhatsApp® is a multi-platform instant messaging application widely used worldwide, however, there is still little applied research on its use as a platform for educational activities in management higher education. In this article, the authors present a quantitative and qualitative assessment of a concrete experience of WhatsApp® use that involved 140 undergraduate management students. Data were collected through questionnaires answered by the participants after the end of the experience of use, and also via content analysis of their conversations inside their WhatsApp® groups. The results indicate five main educational affordances of MIM that can be considered in management education: interactivity, knowledge sharing, sense of presence, collaboration and ubiquity. The article also explores the limitations of this tool and provides suggestions of good practices of MIM use for teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Making Management (More) Relevant: Breaking Down Disciplinary Walls and Pursuing Neglected Independent Variables

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 651-662
Author(s):  
Rikki Abzug ◽  
Adeyinka Adewale ◽  
Rae André ◽  
Pamela Derfus ◽  
Peggy Hedges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Organizational Variables ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Business Curricula ◽  
Systemic Variables ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

The Walls Project encourages educators to broaden management teaching beyond individual and organizational variables and outcomes to systemic variables and outcomes. Its focus is on discovering independent variables that have social and environmental impacts and are currently neglected. Founded by six individuals who met at a RMLE UnConference in 2017, the Project decided to share pedagogical materials, examine them for commonalities, and present their findings at the MOBTC conference in 2019. This article summarizes these materials with an eye to revealing several variables of consequence, such as socioeconomic status and belief in economic growth, which are studied and taught infrequently in business schools. We suggest that researchers examine business curricula for similar neglected variables, study their impact across systems levels, and then develop them pedagogically to enhance management education that has a social and environmental impact.

De-disciplining humanity: the humanities’ case for Critical Management Literacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762095815
Author(s):  
Ulrike Landfester ◽  
Jörg Metelmann
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conceptual Dimension ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Promising Development ◽  
Specific Contribution

From the point of view of the humanities, it is a very promising development that management studies have recently turned to the humanities in the quest for competences which are perceived by both managers and the public to be sadly lacking in management education. From the point of view of management studies, however, humanities’ scholars usually fall equally sadly short of teaching those competences to management students in a manner designed to convey what, exactly, those competences are and why they should need them. Our article seeks to negotiate the gap between the two disciplinary domains by introducing a concept of Critical Management Literacy which is designed to communicate the humanities’ specific contribution to management studies. Applying this concept to the humanities, we argue that the humanities are uniquely suited to help overcome the disciplinary segregation of knowledge by teaching that humanity is not an ontologically pre-stabilised entity that can be owned by any discipline; rather, it is an epistemological construct which varies according to the contexts it is developed and used in. The type of knowledge the humanities offer makes this conceptual dimension visible, which we claim is intrinsically important to management education. To offer access to this knowledge to management studies, however, the humanities will definitively have to revise their understanding of their disciplinary identity to some extent.

scholarly journals AWARENESS & APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR MANAGEMENT STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 7092-7105
Author(s):  
Dr. Kavita Khadse Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Demographic Classification ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Awareness Level ◽  
Broad Overview

With the Industry Revolution 4.0, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bound to have its contribution in almost all of the sectors. AI has been constantly contributing to improvements in ability and performance of the systems and the services, with many of the sectors already benefiting from AI. It has also made a noteworthy progress in education sector. The paper analyses awareness of AI tools introduced for voice assistance which are being used by a major population of management students. It checks if there is any variation in the awareness level of the students based on demographic classification. It also provides potential impact of AI with variation in the levels of awareness among management students. Paper provides a broad overview about the benefits of incorporating AI in Management Education Sector.

The Relationships Between the Dark Triad, the Moral Judgment Level, and the Students’ Disciplinary Choice

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Krick ◽  
Stephanie Tresp ◽  
Mirijam Vatter ◽  
Antonia Ludwig ◽  
Michael Wihlenda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Selection Hypothesis ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Business And Management

Abstract. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between the personality traits of the Dark Triad, the moral judgment level, and the students’ disciplinary choice. It was hypothesized that students who major in higher business and management education show higher levels of the Dark Triad and lower levels of moral judgment competence (self-selection hypothesis). According to the indoctrination hypothesis it was assumed that the differences between business and management students and other students would be higher in advanced semesters. The findings suggest that business and management students show higher levels of the Dark Triad but not of moral judgment competence. However, there was no evidence found for a higher difference in advanced students.

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