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Creating space for Reflexivity at an MBA
Abstract While executive programmes, including MBA studies, have proliferated in recent years, there has been an increasing focus on how executive teaching contributes to contemporary challenges facing executives in their everyday life as organizational heads. In particular, researchers on management learning have called for a balance between hard and soft skills, practice-oriented reflexivity, and new ways of bridging theory and practice. The present paper answers this call by focusing on how a relational and social construction approach can assist the development of executive programmes in order to accommodate the need for more reflexive practices in the everyday life of the executive. The paper addresses how reflexivity can be supported during MBA programmes, which is demonstrated by a longitudinal experimental effort where the authors of the paper applied seven different management learning practices to a Danish MBA programme. The point of departure for the application consists of three premises: 1) Management learning is a situated, relational, contextual and problem-based practice where the organizational challenges of executives must be explored from within their real business situations; 2) management learning emerges from incidents, phenomena and ways of relating that represent not anticipated or unexpected insights by which the executive is struck; 3) management learning revolves around reflexivity. The paper arrives at two significant findings and a question for future research. First, reflexivity is not and cannot be perceived as a planned or progressive process. Second, reflexivity is a relational practice that involves unsettling taken-for-granted assumptions and perceptions. Third, the occurrence of reflexivity in management learning seems to depend more on process than content in management learning – however, further research on the relationship between the how and what of management learning is warranted
Creating space for Reflexivity at an MBA
Abstract While executive programmes, including MBA studies, have proliferated in recent years, there has been an increasing focus on how executive teaching contributes to contemporary challenges facing executives in their everyday life as organizational heads. In particular, researchers on management learning have called for a balance between hard and soft skills, practice-oriented reflexivity, and new ways of bridging theory and practice. The present paper answers this call by focusing on how a relational and social construction approach can assist the development of executive programmes in order to accommodate the need for more reflexive practices in the everyday life of the executive. The paper addresses how reflexivity can be supported during MBA programmes, which is demonstrated by a longitudinal experimental effort where the authors of the paper applied seven different management learning practices to a Danish MBA programme. The point of departure for the application consists of three premises: 1) Management learning is a situated, relational, contextual and problem-based practice where the organizational challenges of executives must be explored from within their real business situations; 2) management learning emerges from incidents, phenomena and ways of relating that represent not anticipated or unexpected insights by which the executive is struck; 3) management learning revolves around reflexivity. The paper arrives at two significant findings and a question for future research. First, reflexivity is not and cannot be perceived as a planned or progressive process. Second, reflexivity is a relational practice that involves unsettling taken-for-granted assumptions and perceptions. Third, the occurrence of reflexivity in management learning seems to depend more on process than content in management learning – however, further research on the relationship between the how and what of management learning is warranted
Creating space for Reflexivity at an MBA
Larsen, Mette Vinther (Autor:in) / Gjerding, Allan Næs (Autor:in) / Kringelum, Louise Brøns (Autor:in)
28.03.2019
Larsen , M V , Gjerding , A N & Kringelum , L B 2019 , ' Creating space for Reflexivity at an MBA ' , Paper presented at European Academy of Management , Lisbon , Portugal , 26/06/2019 - 28/06/2019 .
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