The Liberal Arts and Management Education
A Global Agenda for Change

Advocates for integrating liberal arts with management in a new undergraduate curriculum blending technical and analytic acumen with creativity, critical thinking, and ethical intelligence.

Stefano Harney (Author), Howard Thomas (Author)

9781108473156, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 January 2020

238 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg

'… an innovative pedagogy and perhaps a new appreciation for the relationship between the liberal arts and management degree curricula that integrates the ever-increasing need for professional skills with the historical role of the college experience. This new approach will ensure that baccalaureate graduates, whatever their discipline, are prepared not only for the specialized demands of their professional careers but also for the demands of global leadership.' S. R. Kahn, Choice

Calling for the transformation of undergraduate education, Thomas and Harney argue that the liberal arts should be integrated into the traditional management curriculum to blend technical and analytic acumen with creativity, critical thinking, and ethical intelligence. In describing their vision for a new liberal management education, the authors demonstrate how a holistic pedagogy that does not sacrifice one wealth of learning for another instead encourages participation and integration to the benefit of students and society. Global in sweep, the book provides case studies of successfully implemented experimental courses in Asia and Britain, as well as a speculative chapter on how an African liberal management education could take shape, based on African-centred principles and histories. Finally, the book argues that the stakes of this agenda go beyond mere curricular reform and pedagogical innovation and speak directly to the environmental, business, political, and social challenges we face today.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Liberal Management Education Today: 1. Towards a liberal management education: arguing the case
2. Implementing liberal management education
3. Singapore Management University, a case study
4. The School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, a case study
Part II. The Liberal Heritage of Management Education: 5. Forgotten kinships
6. Running in the family
7. The demotics of management
Part III. The Future of Liberal Management Education: 8. From ethics to liberal arts in today's university
9. Towards an African management education
10. Conclusion
Postscript
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Educational: Business studies & economics [YQV], Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG], Business & management [KJ], Colleges of higher education [JNMH], Organization & management of education [JNK]