Enhancing Sustainability through Experiential Learning in Management Education

Sustainability related areas like CSR, business ethics and corporate governance as subjects is seen in most business school curriculum, whether its inclusion leads to inculcating interest and values for responsible business practices is still a big question. Sustainability incorporates holistic view of issues; the curriculum therefore, has to make linkages to social issues and has to be contextual. The focus of business school curriculum has to be on sensitizing students towards responsible citizenship along with competency building in the area of sustainability. Here, experiential' or action learning would be helpful. The chapter posits the importance of experiential learning in the context of management education and highlights the fact that unless sensitized to the sustainability issues, business schools or at corporate level will see it only from compliance perspective. The chapter also discusses success story of existing modules on experiential learning crafted by 2 NGO's intended to sensitize the participants.

Multicultural Orientations for 21st Century Global Leadership

Multicultural orientation is an important focus area in developing managers for international assignments. This chapter extends the frontier of knowledge on the benefits of developing multicultural orientations in line with business and stakeholders' needs in the global economy. A brief literature review was conducted on multicultural orientations and global leadership effectiveness in the 21st century. It was found that multicultural learning experiences and communication skills, deep self-awareness, multiple intelligences and sensitivity to cultural diversity, humility, cautious honesty, global strategic thinking and good negotiating skills are necessary in the 21st century. The managerial relevance of this chapter centres on further research and development of global psychological capital, vertical development of bigger minds and multiple intelligences to navigate in the midst of volatilities, uncertainties, complexities and ambiguities in the 21st century.

E-Learning and Management Education at African Universities

Technology has bridged all areas in society from government, corporate, society and education. Technology has changed the classroom dynamics in higher education institutions. Management education attracts the most elite students into our programs. These students join the faculty so that they can acquire qualifications and skills and one day join the business, entrepreneurship or corporate world. The new technologies are teaching tools that can be used to assist academics to enhance their teaching in the classroom. Some of these technologies are: desktop and laptop computers; notepads, Software; including assistive software; interactive whiteboards; digital cameras; mobile and wireless tools, including mobile phones; Electronic communication tools, including e-mail, discussion; Virtual learning Environments and Learning activity management systems e.g. E-Learning. Management educators should embrace technology in their curriculum and program offerings.

Holistic Management Education at Tanzanian Rural Development Planning Institute

Holistic Management Education (HME) develops ability of managing the entirety. Objectives of this chapter were to examine HME benchmarks and determine laggards in Human Resource Planning and Management (HRPM) programme at the institute. Methods of data collection included documentary review, participant observation and in-depth interview. Sample size was fifty students and two lecturers as key informants. Judgmental sampling procedure was used for respondents. The chapter found HME benchmarks in HRPM including: integrated curriculum consisting of stakeholders' collaboration in curriculum formulation, holistic vision, mission, objectives, multidisciplinary modules, integrative assessment methods, active pedagogical learning methods and conducive learning space. Laggards in HME included inadequate provision of dormitories and inadequate use of guest speaker learning method in classrooms. Taking advantage of prevailing HME benchmarks and capacity building of lecturers on HME were solutions for HME enhancement. Management mobilization of resources for supporting HME activities and lecturers' commitment to their career duties were recommendations for strengthening HME.

Paradigm Shift in Management Education

Scholars, in the field of management education, have questioned the efficacy of current focus of business education in creating effective managers. Gulf between theory and practice, undue emphasis on conceptual knowledge, and lamentable attention to knowledge assimilation are cited as the prominent reasons for significantly low level of managerial effectiveness. In this regard, this chapter analyses the current paradigms of management education in its attempt to make a case for the need for a paradigm shift in education. Review of prior research clearly articulates the need for a cross functional approach to management education to bridge the gap between theory and its application. Further, this chapter discusses the dimensions of the process-orientation paradigm that it articulates. Potential contributions of process orientation paradigm and challenges before the cross-functional perspective of management education are also presented.

EFQM in Management Education

Quality Assurance and Value Management can be both assured by combining informational competencies and integral values, especially in higher education. Educated new generations acquire informational and labor-oriented competencies that positively affect to firms enhancing productivity and efficiency. The development of the Internet has been converted into one of the main engines of economic growth by having created a new Postindustrial Technological Cyber-society that is focused on a worldwide-oriented business market. Only the best and well prepared businesses survive in a hostile economic world by attracting the best human capital, investors, and clients. As a result, and given the importance of higher education for firms, there is a necessity of enriching the EFQM Model that the authors propose in the chapter.

Relevance of Teaching Values and Ethics in Management Education

To understand the role of ethical education in facing the ethical challenges in organizations this chapter provides a discussion of implications of the questions of relevance, predicament and methods of ethical training. In the introduction author emphasizes on the reasons of focusing upon the ethical education, then describes the ethical connection with responsibility and explores the terms values, ethics and business ethics. Further the author describes the main focus of the chapter that is relevance of ethics in management education, what and how should ethics be taught. The chapter revolves around the responsibility of the leaders or top management in the various areas of organization which directly or indirectly affect their ethical and moral side of behavior and actions and highlights the importance of ethical education. Further the author reviews the courses running in syllabus of top B Schools of India and abroad, then finally proposes solutions and strategies to tackle the challenges.

Excellence Perspective for Management Education from a Global Accountants' Hub in Asia

This chapter discusses how accounting education in Sri Lanka, an emerging South Asian country, has evolved over time to become a global hub of accountants through its accounting education system. The chapter presents a detailed description of the history of accounting education in Sri Lanka, the role of professional accounting bodies and academic accounting education, a comparison of professional and academic education systems and finally the current status and future directions of accounting education of the country. Having roots of accounting education well over twenty centuries, the professional and academic education systems of Sri Lanka have evolved independently creating an anomaly when compared with the global practice in which the graduate accounting profession is the norm. Sri Lanka will have to continually strengthen the accounting education system to sustain its stature in the ever dynamic and complex global business environment that poses many challenges for the accounting profession.

Job Satisfaction and Teachers Retention

The objective of this research is to provide a platform to researchers to formulate retention strategies for their respective teaching staff and institutes. The present study has thus undertaken extensive literature review and depicted the impact of job satisfaction in teacher's retention at management institutes in India. The scope of present study is to identify the factors affecting teacher's retention in management institutes in Indian and also to explore the importance of job satisfaction in the same. The future research direction of the present study is to engage the Baron and Kenny, 1986 model for mediation regression analysis and conduct the institute specific study for exploring the frequency of each factor in retaining teachers within their institutes.

Professional Integrity in Business Management Education

This chapter is aimed to analyse professional integrity as an improvement concept to the actual values and virtues and meaning managerial capabilities and attitudes to assume any professional task. This paper is aimed to analyse a case of management education for professional integrity at the University Centre for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara. Methodology: The research method employed is the ethnographic, document and life's histories, complemented with field work supported by in-depth interviews and analysed using a comparative method. Results: The outcomes of the research on the application in management education demonstrate that the drama of economic efficiency is centred on a dysfunctional professional integrity. This chapter provides a sound professional philosophy that empowers professionals to act with integrity, increases the probability for long-term success and professional fulfilment.