Management Education for Practicing Managers: Combining Academic Rigor with Personal Change and Organizational Action

Autor/inn/en	Berggren, Christian; Soderlund, Jonas
Titel	Management Education for Practicing Managers: Combining Academic Rigor with Personal Change and Organizational Action
Quelle	In: Journal of Management Education, 35 (2011) 3, S.377-405 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-5629
DOI	10.1177/1052562910390369
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Management Development; Educational Practices; Experiential Learning; Action Research; Reflection; Performance Contracts; Reports; Tests; Case Method (Teaching Technique); Theses; Theater Arts; Professional Continuing Education; Masters Programs; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungspraxis; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Projektforschung; Leistungsvereinbarung; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Case method; Fallmethode; These; Theaterwissenschaft; Berufsfeldbezogener Unterricht; Weiterbildung; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Schweden
Abstract	For several decades, management educators have discussed the difficulty of accommodating the competing values of academic rigor and organizational relevance. Only a few articles, however, consider approaches for integrating theory and practice in educational programs for working managers. Building on 15 years of experience in executive education, this article presents an approach grounded in experiential and action learning, which combines personal learning and organizational action without compromising academic standards. The following educational practices are discussed and evaluated: reflection reports, personal learning contracts, roundtable examinations, live cases, action-oriented thesis work, and organizational knowledge theaters. Taken together, the approach constitutes a powerful program design to address multiple learning loci and combinations of reflection and action, albeit one with considerable challenges and difficulties, as the authors discuss. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10