Business Administration Education : Changes in Management and Leadership Strategies

A dynamic collaboration of nine experienced scholars, this timely work shares their rich blend of experiences and insights on emerging paradigms. This multifaceted work will assist students, scholars, and practitioners in attaining and maintaining excellence in an evolving world. edited by Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman, Svetlana Holt. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Essence of Being There: Wakefulness as a Strategic Leadership Tool....Pages 3-17 Social Responsibility: Caring for People, Products, Peace, Preservation, and Planet....Pages 19-41 Measure and Manage: Intangible Assets Metric Standards for Sustainability....Pages 43-63 Knowing Our Audience: Business Leaders Need Better Tools and Techniques to Connect with Consumers....Pages 65-85 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 What Do Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Have to Do with Change?....Pages 89-103 Changed Learning Needs: Some Radical Reflections on B-School Education....Pages 105-128 What Makes Adult Education Compelling? Diversity as Enrichment Strategy....Pages 129-143 An Interdisciplinary Approach on Wisdom Transfer in Work and Learning Environments Using Storytelling to Inspire Positive Change....Pages 145-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Including the Global Context: Enlarging Our Horizons through Cultural Training....Pages 161-183 We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Going Global with an (African) American Business....Pages 185-199 The Virtue of Integrity through an Individual or Collective Cultural Lens: Ethical Leaders Make Reliable Business....Pages 201-215 Connecting with the Future: Embracing the Millennials....Pages 217-231 Back Matter....Pages 233-246 A dynamic collaboration of nine experienced scholars, share their rich blend of experiences and insights in this book, which consists of three parts with one overarching theme: emerging paradigms. This multifaceted work will assist students, scholars, and practitioners in attaining and maintaining excellence in an evolving world, Business education today demands more responsible and synergistic approaches on a number of key fronts. Distance learning, a new generation of students with its own unique character, ethical questions concerning social responsibility and the environment, and the powerful effects of new technologies are transforming higher education at large and business education in particular. Through their combined experience in these domains, and their broad diversity in geographical, ethnic, and educational backgrounds, the authors are living and leading constructive interdisciplinary change in business education. This book will be divided into three interrelated parts: 1) Change in Management Education, 2) Change in Leadership Strategies, and 3) Expansion of Views and Approaches. These are the three areas that require most urgent paradigm shifts followed by swift, targeted action Changed Learning Needs: What are Conscious Business Students Looking for?-- J. McHann What Makes Adult Education Compelling? Diversity as Enrichment Strategy-- J. Marques An Interdisciplinary Approach on Wisdom Transfer in Work and Learning Environments using Storytelling to Inspire Positive Change-- S. Dhiman What do Empathy and Emotional Intelligence have to do with Change?-- S. Holt The Virtue of Integrity: Ethical Leaders make Reliable Business-- D. Gifford The Essence of Being There: Wakefulness as a Strategic Leadership Tool-- J. Marques Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Purpose in our Personal and Professional Lives-- V. Andrews Knowing our Audience: Business Leaders Need Better Tools and Techniques to Connect with Consumers-- M. Levens Including the Global Context: The Need to Enlarge Our Horizons-- T. Koybaeva Measure Local, Manage Global: Intangible Assets Metric Standards for Sustainability-- W. Fisher Social Responsibility: Caring for People, Products, Peace, Preservation, and Planet-- S. Dhiman Connecting with the Future: Embracing the Millennials-- S. Holt Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9780230341036, 2012