Developing leadership
Subtitle: ¿questions business schools don't ask?
By: edited by Christopher Mabey & Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781446296110; 9781446296103
Subjects: Business schools; Leadership; Management
Description: "The role of business schools in developing future managers and leaders has long been scrutinised and critiqued. This has been exacerbated by the recent financial crisis and many books have been written that condemn business schools for producing leaders who graduate without the ability to respond to the changing world around them, innovate, or act in a responsible way. By way of remedy this provocative book takes the critique and debate further, proposing a number of ethical and spiritual resources including Heiggarian philosophy, classical Greek philosophy, and the Maori notion of wairua.  It explores existing teaching practices and suggests ways that business schools can: encourage a greater understanding of different world views; introduce different perspectives such as the arts, philosophy and spirituality; encourage the practice of responsible and ethical leadership; and nurture innovation and creativity." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What kind of leader are you becoming?  -- Christopher Mabey and Wolfgang Mayrhofer :; title: A case of collusion ;; title: More adequate theorizing ;; title: Recovery of moral authority ;; title: Re-appraisal of pedagogy -- -- Part I.; title: How do business schools prepare students for leadership? :; title: Questioning business schools  -- Tim Harle :; title: Business schools: have they lost their way? ;; title: Business schools: finding a way back ;; title: So where now for business schools? --; title: Questions business schools are unable to ask  -- Aidan Ward and Wolfgang Mayrhofer :; title: Systems theories ;; title: Cybernetics and implied purpose ;; title: A self-referential view: the importance of coupling ;; title: The individual and the context --; title: Preparing managers for 'exile' at work?: The Hong Kong experience  -- Ricky Yuk-Kwan Ng :; title: The sense of being alienated, stripped and imprisoned ;; title: The contemporary workplace ;; title: Exiled to work ;; title: From the world's factory to the last frontier ;; title: Can business schools address the loss of the human side in organizations? --; title: The forgotten humanness of organizations  -- Yuliya Shymko :; title: Cultivating attitudes in the age of disenchantment ;; title: The unchanging discourses of change ;; title: The scientific and pedagogical trivialization of change ;; title: Debunking change theories --; title: Rapporteur : Jerry Biberman -- -- Part II.; title: How robust are the theoretical and moral assumptions of business schools? :; title: Is economic growth a force for good?  -- Molly Scott Cato :; title: The origin of the growth imperative ;; title: Problems with the growth imperative ;; title: Is small still beautiful? ;; title: Pedagogy for a human-scale economy --; title: Can leadership be value-free?  -- Ken Parry and Audun Fiskerud :; title: How did we leave morality and ethics out of the study of leadership? ;; title: What are the consequences of this gap? ;; title: How do we propose to address this gap? ;; title: Change the discourse about leadership in business school programmes --; title: Do business schools create conformists rather than leaders?  -- David Beech :; title: Challenges facing capitalism and business education ;; title: Cultural power ;; title: Value configurations ;; title: Institutional leadership --; title: Business schools, economic virtues and Christian theology  -- Andrew Henley :; title: 'Positive' economic analysis and the fiction of homo oeconomicus ;; title: The 'virtue' of self-interest in the world of neoclassical economics ;; title: Virtue or pleonoxia? ;; title: A Christian reflection on virtue and economics --; title: Can our bodies guide the teaching and learning of business ethics?  -- Leah Tomkins :; title: Senses of embodiment ;; title: Death matters! ;; title: Heidegger, mortality and meaning ;; title: Levinas, mortality and ethics ;; title: The felt sense of ethics ;; title: Implications for the curriculum --; title: Rapporteur : J.-C. Spender -- -- Part III. Ethical leadership: philosophical and spiritual approaches :; title: Inspiring responsible leadership in business schools: can a spiritual approach help?  -- Karen Blakely :; title: Spirituality: the missing dimension of PRME ;; title: Spiritual capital in the business school: a framework ;; title: Developing spiritual capital at work: new questions that business schools might ask ;; title: Potential obstacles to spirituality in the business school --; title: Is it possible to learn ethical leadership?: MacIntyre, Žižek and the recovery of virtue  -- Mervyn Conroy :; title: Neo-liberal perspectives ;; title: Distance ;; title: Ethical practice ;; title: Žižek ;; title: An alternative leadership module --; title: Classical Greek philosophy and the learning journey  -- Hugo Gaggiotti and Peter Simpson :; title: A journey of enlightenment ;; title: The return ;; title: Why is theoria important? --; title: For whose purposes do we educate?: Wairua in business schools  -- Pare Keiha and Edwina Pio :; title: Collective prosperity ;; title: Weaving wairua ;; title: Utilization of the unfamiliar --; title: Rapporteur : Laurence Freeman --; title: Part IV. Reclaiming a moral voice in business schools: some pedagogic examples :; title: Were business schools complicit in the financial crisis and can classical French literature help?  -- Rickard Grassman :; title: The ideological bias of business schools ;; title: Naturalizing self-interest is a risky business ;; title: Balzac: a child of the nineteenth century --; title: Why is it important for leaders to understand the meaning of respect?  -- Doirean Wilson :; title: The benefits and challenges of multicultural work teams ;; title: The role of respect in team-working relationships ;; title: What do we really know about respect? ;; title: Sources of conflict --; title: The contemporary relevance of the Hebrew wisdom tradition  -- Phil Jackman :; title: How can the Hebrew wisdom tradition help? ;; title: How might this look in an MBA curriculum? --; title: Do business schools prepare students for cosmopolitan careers?: The case of greater China  -- Pamsy Hui, Warren Chiu, John Coombes and Elvy Pang :; title: A tale of three cities ;; title: Towards a culturally attuned MBA education --; title: Can an ethic of care support the management of change?  -- Mary Hartog and Leah Tomkins :; title: Maintaining care when your employer doesn't ;; title: Acknowledging complexity and inconsistent emotions ;; title: From feelings of sympathy to encouraging agency ;; title: Connected knowing: towards coherence and the endurance of identity and values ;; title: The 'caring organization' revisited: from midwife to surrogate? --; title: Management blockbusters: is there space for open dissent?  -- Daniel Doherty :; title: Introduction: a personal discovery of critical approaches ;; title: The close reading of Built to last --; title: Rapporteur : David W. Miller -- -- Coda :; title: Reflections on the book, its genesis and its impact -- Chris Mabey and Wolfgang Mayrhofer.