Management education and humanities

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Management education and humanities

edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Barbara Czarniawska

E. Elgar, 2006

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Selection of papers presented at a conference held in Venice on Sept. 10, 2003

"In association with Fondazione Giorgio Cini" -- T.p

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might play in the formation of new managerial elites. The book examines three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary debate on management education: the profession of management; humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an academic field where management schools could find new inspirations for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of reference extended between two different points of view: the traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social function; and the 'past-modern' view, which is inclined to skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural phenomena. Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational behaviour.

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Contents: Foreword INTRODUCTIONS 1. A Role for Humanities in the Formation of Managers Pasquale Gagliardi 2. Forming Managers? A Counterpoint Barbara Czarniawska 3. A Guide for Readers Pasquale Gagliardi and Barbara Czarniawska PART I: MANAGERIAL PROFESSION AT THE START OF THE NEW CENTURY 4. Management Education and the Humanities: The Challenge of Post-Bureaucracy John Hendry 5. Women and Humanities: Allies or Enemies? Helene Ahl 6. American Psycho/European Schizo: Stories of Managerial Elites in a Hundred Images Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert PART II: MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: IS A HUMANIST REFRAMING POSSIBLE? 7. The Business School in Ruins? Ken Starkey and Sue Tempest 8. Problematizing and Enlarging the Notion of Humanistic Education Daniel Arenas 9. Cultivation or Civilization? Popular Management Concepts and their Role in Reshaping the Way Management is Understood Niels Dechow PART III: BRINGING HUMANITIES INTO THE HEART OF MANAGEMENT 10. Management as Product of the European Knowledge Tradition: A Modern Form of Ancient Paideia? Keith Hoskin 11. A Journey Beyond Institutional Knowledge: Dante's Reading of the Odyssey Silvia Gherardi 12. Strong Plots: Popular Culture in Management Practice and Theory Barbara Czarniawska and Carl Rhodes PART IV: RETHINKING HUMANISM 13. A Philosopher in Public Management Lars Vissing 14. The Great Narrative of the Sciences and the History of Humanities Michel Serres 15. Post-Humanist Challenges to the Human and Social Sciences Karin Knorr Cetina Afterword Anthony G. Hopwood Index

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