Grand Challenges and the MBA

IF 2.5 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI:10.1177/10525629231154891

Amanda Shantz, M. Sayer, Janice Byrne, Kiera Dempsey-Brench

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Humanity is facing multiple grand challenges, compelling a myriad of diverse actors to interact, coordinate, and collaborate like never before. Business schools have a role to play in equipping future leaders to tackle them and we posit that to do so, leaders must be able to take multiple perspectives into consideration and look to the future while being morally aware. We carry out an in-depth audit of how MBA programs currently fare in this regard. We find that despite the urgency and salience of these transnational and intractable issues, little attention is paid to preparing MBA students to address grand challenges. We identify three barriers that may prevent educators from facilitating student acquisition of these competencies and conclude by proposing potential models of MBA programs for grand challenges.

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大挑战和MBA

人类正面临着多重重大挑战，迫使无数不同的参与者以前所未有的方式进行互动、协调和合作。商学院在培养未来领导者解决这些问题方面可以发挥作用，我们认为，要做到这一点，领导者必须能够从多个角度考虑问题，在具备道德意识的同时展望未来。我们对MBA课程目前在这方面的表现进行了深入的审计。我们发现，尽管这些跨国和棘手问题的紧迫性和突出性，但很少有人关注MBA学生应对重大挑战的准备。我们确定了可能阻碍教育工作者促进学生获得这些能力的三个障碍，并提出了应对重大挑战的MBA课程的潜在模式。

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Journal of Management Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Management Education (JME) encourages contributions that respond to important issues in management education. The overriding question that guides the journal’s double-blind peer review process is: Will this contribution have a significant impact on thinking and/or practice in management education? Contributions may be either conceptual or empirical in nature, and are welcomed from any topic area and any country so long as their primary focus is on learning and/or teaching issues in management or organization studies. Although our core areas of interest are organizational behavior and management, we are also interested in teaching and learning developments in related domains such as human resource management & labor relations, social issues in management, critical management studies, diversity, ethics, organizational development, production and operations, sustainability, etc. We are open to all approaches to scholarly inquiry that form the basis for high quality knowledge creation and dissemination within management teaching and learning.