The MBA at the crossroads: Design issues for the future

Bubna-Litic, D; Benn, S

The MBA at the crossroads: Design issues for the future

Bubna-Litic, D Benn, S

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Citation:: Journal of Management and Organization, 2003, 9 (3), pp. 25 - 36
Issue Date:: 2003-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Bubna-Litic, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Benn, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5282-2255	en_US
dc.date.issued	2003-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Management and Organization, 2003, 9 (3), pp. 25 - 36	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1833-3672	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/5269
dc.description.abstract	How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter this new century? This question is explored from two perspectives. First, the implications of the changing social, economic and political context of management education, particularly the emerging needs for a sustainable and reflexive society. The second perspective will explore the recent debates around epistemology and their potentially important implications for related curriculum design issues. Assumptions about the nature of knowledge dominant in the 1960s formed the very rationale behind the design. At this time the assumption that knowledge was cumulative and each discipline had an uncontested knowledge, which could be taught in foundational subjects was central to the MBA's development. We question the ability of such subjects to capture the diversity of the disciplines they seek to represent and whether this design is the best way to develop graduates with the ability for reflexivity in action, who can broach different worldviews and have the skills that can negotiate the transformations required of corporate Australia. The MBA is at the crossroads - can it regenerate through an incremental changing of curricula, to incorporate the active engagement of students with these issues?.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Management and Organization	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.5172/jmo.2003.9.3.25	en_US
dc.title	The MBA at the crossroads: Design issues for the future	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

How appropriate is the MBA as the major vehicle for management education in Australia as we enter this new century? This question is explored from two perspectives. First, the implications of the changing social, economic and political context of management education, particularly the emerging needs for a sustainable and reflexive society. The second perspective will explore the recent debates around epistemology and their potentially important implications for related curriculum design issues. Assumptions about the nature of knowledge dominant in the 1960s formed the very rationale behind the design. At this time the assumption that knowledge was cumulative and each discipline had an uncontested knowledge, which could be taught in foundational subjects was central to the MBA's development. We question the ability of such subjects to capture the diversity of the disciplines they seek to represent and whether this design is the best way to develop graduates with the ability for reflexivity in action, who can broach different worldviews and have the skills that can negotiate the transformations required of corporate Australia. The MBA is at the crossroads - can it regenerate through an incremental changing of curricula, to incorporate the active engagement of students with these issues?.

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