Dear members of the Academy of Management's Management Education and Development
Discussion Group list,
I have been invited by Prof. Charlie Wankel to post to this list a
contribution already made to the OBTS-List, and I am happy to do this and
possibly enlarge the debate.
Navigating in the WEB I could find following statment form an interview to
Gareth Morgan:
"I think there's got to be a shift away from teaching
organization and management research, and organization and management
theory, toward teaching about how we can think about organization and how we
can organize in creative ways. The theory and research can make an input to
this. But it is insufficient. It can only be an input to thinking about
organization and management, not an end in itself."
Source:
http://www.sagepub.com/sagepage/gareth_interview.htm
This could be a relevant topic to be discussed in the list:
1. HOW DO RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATION AND TEACHING ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS RELATE
TO EACH OTHER?
2. IS IT NECESSARY TO BE A GOOD RESEARCHER FOR BEEING A GOOD TEACHER?
3. IF THE WORLD OF ORGANIZATIONS IS REALLY CONTINOUSLY CHANGING, WOULDN'T IT
BE ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO TEACH HOW TO RESEARCH INTO NEW FIELDS?
4. IF MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS ARE MORE CLOSE TO FASHIONS THAN TO CONCEPTUAL
TOOLS (A. Kieser 1997, Organization, no.1), ISN'IT THEN MORE MEANINGFUL
TO TEACH HOW TO DETECT FLAWS THAN TO TEACH THOSE TECHNIQUES?
Un saluto,
Giuseppe Dlmestri
Assistant Professor, Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy
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