Essential Readings in Management Learning

by Christopher John Grey, Elena Antonacopoulou

Overview

This collection reprints articles from the journal Management Learning from its founding in 1994 to the present. Grey (organizational theory, Cambridge) and Antonacopoulou (organizational behavior, U. of Liverpool) have arranged the papers around the themes of organizational learning and learning organizations; individual learning; critical approaches to management education and learning; pedagogical practices; globalization; and beyond management learning. Specific topics include mechanisms, culture and feasibility in organizational learning; the transfer of Western management to China; and the aesthetics of management storytelling. The contributions are varied in focus and orientation, but all probe and question the status quo. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412901413
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/28/2004
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.84(w) x 9.76(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

The author is based at the University of Cambridge

Elena Antonacopoulou is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at University of Liverpool Management School. She previously held faculty positions at Warwick Business School, Manchester Business School and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She earned her Ph D (1996) from the University of Warwick and she holds a Masters Degree in Management from the University of Kent. She also holds professional qualifications such the Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (1989) and the Diploma of the Association of Computer Professionals in Computer Systems Analysis and Design (1988)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations	19
1	From Organizational Learning to the Learning Organization	21
2	Organizational Learning: Mechanisms, Culture, and Feasibility	37
3	A Typology of the Idea of Learning Organization	53
4	The Learning Organization: An Undelivered Promise	71
Part 2	Individual Learning	89
5	Planned and Emergent Learning: Consequences for Development	91
6	Knowing, Managing and Learning: A Dynamic Managerial Epistemology	107
7	Individual and Organizational Learning at the Executive Level: Towards a Research Agenda	130
Part 3	Critical Approaches to Management Education and Learning	149
8	Management Education: A Polemic	151
9	Critical Pedagogy in the 'New Paradigm': Raising Complicated Understanding in Management Learning	167
10	Head Games: Introducing Tomorrow's Business Elites to Institutionalized Inequality	187
11	Teaching Managers about Masculinities: Are you Kidding?	217
Part 4	Pedagogical Practice	237
12	Motivation: that's Maslow, isn't it?	239
13	Becoming an Expert in Not Knowing: Reframing Teacher as Consultant	255
14	Project-based Learning: Building Communities of Reflective Practitioners	271
Part 5	Globalization and Management Learning	289
15	Management Education in a Globalizing World: Lessons from the French Experience	291
16	The Transfer of Western Management to China: Context, Content and Constraints	321
17	The Modern Crusade: The Missionaries of Management come to Eastern Europe	343
Part 6	Beyond Management Learning	363
18	Learning through Complexity	365
19	Managers and Research: The Pros and Cons of Qualitative Approaches	386
20	The Aesthetics of Management Storytelling: A Key to Organizational Learning	404
	Index	423