1. Introduction: What kind of leader are you becoming? -
Christopher Mabey and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Part 1: How do business schools prepare students for
leadership?
2. Questioning Business Schools - Tim Harle
3. Questions business schools are unable to ask - Aidan Ward and
Wolfgang Mayrhofer
4. Preparing Managers for ‘Exile’ at Work? The Hong Kong Experience
- Ricky, Yuk-Kwan Ng
5. The forgotten humanness of organizations - Yuliya Shymko
Rapporteur: Jerry Biberman
Part 2: How robust are the theoretical and moral assumptions of
business schools?
6. Is economic growth a force for good? - Molly Scott Cato
7. Can leadership be value-free? - Ken Parry & Audun Fiskerud
8. Do business schools create conformists rather than leaders? -
David Beech
9. Business Schools, Economic Virtues and Christian Theology -
Andrew Henley
10: Can our bodies guide the teaching and learning of business
ethics? - Leah Tomkins
Rapporteur: JC Spender
Part 3: Ethical leadership: philosophical and spiritual
approaches
11. Inspiring responsible leadership in business schools: can a
spiritual approach help? - Karen Blakeley
12. Is it possible to learn ethical leadership? MacIntyre, Zizek
and the recovery of virtue. - Mervyn Conroy
13. Classical Greek Philosophy and the Learning Journey - Hugo
Gaggiotti and Peter Simpson
14. For whose purposes do we educate? Wairua in Business schools -
Pare Keiha and Edwina Pio
Rapporteur: Laurence Freeman
Part 4: Reclaiming a moral voice in business schools: some
pedagogic examples
15. Were business schools complicit in the financial crisis and can
classical French literature help? - Rickard Grassman
16. Why is it important for leaders to understand the meaning of
respect? - Doirean Wilson
17. The contemporary relevance of the Hebrew wisdom tradition -
Phil Jackman
18. Do business schools prepare students for cosmopolitan careers?
The case of Greater China - Pamsy Hui, Warren Chiu, John Coombes,
and Elvy Pang
19. Can an ethic of care support the teaching and management of
change? - Mary Hartog and Leah Tomkins
20. Management blockbusters: is there space for open dissent? -
Daniel Doherty
Rapporteur: David W. Miller
Coda: Reflections on the Book, Its Genesis and Its Impact
Chris Mabey is a Chartered Psychologist and Professor in Leadership
at Middlesex University Business School. Chris has held a
career-long interest in leadership development as a counsellor for
a charity, as a practitioner with British Telecom and Rank Xerox
and as a consultant. More recently he has researched, taught and
written on this topic with four different business schools.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer is Full Professor and head of the
Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational
Behaviour, Department of Management, WU Vienna (Vienna University
of Economics and Business), Austria. He previously has held
full-time research and teaching positions at the University of
Paderborn, Germany, and at Dresden University of Technology,
Germany, after receiving his diploma and doctoral degree, and
post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in Business Administration from
WU.
He conducts research in comparative international human resource
management, comparative careers, and systems theory and management
and has received several national and international awards for
outstanding research and service to the academic community. With
his co-authors he published more than 30 books, most recently Gunz,
H. P., Lazarova, M. B., & Mayrhofer, W. (Eds.). 2020. The Routledge
Companion to Career Studies. Milton Park: Routledge, and Brewster,
C., Mayrhofer, W., & Farndale, E. (Eds.). 2018. Handbook Of
Research On Comparative Human Resource Management. (2 ed.).
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, and more than 150 book chapters and 90
peer reviewed articles.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer is a member of the editorial board of several
international journals, a research fellow at the Simon Fraser
University Centre for Global Workforce Strategy (Vancouver,
Canada), and a member of the academic advisory board of AHRMIO, the
Association of Human Resource Management in International
Organisations. His teaching assignments both at the undergraduate,
graduate, and executive level and his role as visiting scholar has
led him to many universities around the globe. He regularly
consults with organisations in the for-profit and non-profit world
and conducts management trainings, among others on sailboats
(www.championSHIPS.at).
A rare thing, this book gives more than the label promises. The
title is about ‘questions’, yet each chapter gives us answers to
why important issues are not addressed in business
schools - and what to do about it. This is a manifesto for reform,
and the next big question is what will you, reader, do about
it?
*Jonathan Gosling*
Reading this book makes you think about leadership and, most of
all, educating potential leaders! The book builds on an astonishing
multiplicity of theoretical, philosophical and spiritual
traditions, providing the reader with a critical understanding of
leadership processes – including moral responsibilities and
accountabilities.
*Jörg Sydow*
Exploring the intrinsic link between spirituality, ethics and
business, is a critical step in ensuring the unified vision of
individuals, institutions of society and the community, to achieve
a harmonious and sustainable future. It is incumbent upon us
all to become the ‘agents of change′.
*Soheil Abedian*
This is a very timely publication. Business school education needs
a critical examination from people who inhabit that world and know
what they′re talking about. The presence and prominence of
teleological, spiritual and ethical perspectives are especially
welcome.
*Richard Higginson*
This collection of readings is an excellent antidote to what can be
seen as the ignominy of our age – the relentless and unremitting
proliferation of corporate scandals culminating but not ceasing
with the 2008 global financial crisis. More specifically, it
focuses on one of the travesties of the modern university – the
incapacity of business schools to challenge the myopic economic
instrumental values of business. By raising problems and
possible solutions to questions that business schools rarely ask,
it facilitates a debate that could help to challenge the
inadvertent complicity of higher education to sustain and reproduce
an unenlightened individualistic self seeking managerial cadre. It
provides an illuminating insight into current business school and
business practices and their failures to provide a more enlightened
ethical leadership that would benefit both students and
practitioners of business as well as society more generally.
*David Knights*
This book is a badly needed, but underestimated - and perhaps
unwanted? - wake-up call for main stream business schools,
which are providing smooth, normative, maple syrup flavoured
managerialist answers to important, current and
future leadership challenges. The book will help academics,
students and practitioners to get out of the inner paradigmatic
prison, where answers are provided, before the questions are
raised, where socially desirable rhetoric shade for critical
questioning, and where "what′s in it for me?" repress important
societal, ethical considerations.
*Henrik Holt Larsen*
We live in interesting times. Wealth and power are concentrated in
the hands of a very small elite, while the dispossessed are
complicit because they have made money their god. We are racing
towards cataclysmic collapse, as infinite growth is not possible
when we live on a finite planet. Within this aberration Business
Schools have become the servants of corporate power. Thinking is
seen as dangerous because it threatens power, and ethics is equally
subversive within materialistic consumerism. Without challenging
the idea of business this book asserts that universities at least
ought to be asking questions. However speaking truth to power is
not easy when universities themselves have become just another
corporate business. This book is vast and complex in its
scholarship, with something for everyone. Enjoy and be
challenged.
*Tony Watkins*
‘The authors have undertaken a courageous exploration of the ills
that never seem to go away in the capitalist model. Courageous
because the authors examine their own roles in perpetuating those
ills. It is an important book which I hope the leaders of
business schools and leaders of business will read.‘
*Vincent Neate*
‘This book is music to my ears. There has long been a desperate
need to be critically reflexive about the paradigm of leadership
and management promoted by business schools, and I delight in the
fact that this collection of narratives aims to pick the lock of
this 21st century psychic prison. This is a long overdue and
must-read book.’
*Patrick Goh*
Finally! For too long the role of business education, and the MBA
as its global flagship, has remained shockingly unquestioned in
today’s crisis of enterprise and economics. This book has to be
highly commended for its collaborative, crosscultural courage,
reviewing and renewing not only the underlying assumptions of
business and business education, but also for tapping deeply into
an impressive variety of philosophical, ethical, cultural and
spiritual resources of humanity as vital ingredients for a much
needed transformation of an entire discipline and practice.
Developing Leadership’s main merit is to be a well-composed,
deeply substantiated and profoundly challenging "door opener" to a
crucial debate – to be held across borders, cultures, disciplines
and institutions. It is an example and urgent invitation for
co-engagement between management educators, business students and
practitioners alike. Congratulations!
*Alexander Schieffer*
The 20 essays, along with their end-of-section commentaries,
uniquely challenge the traditional paradigmatic curriculum; they
also provide from an insider’s viewpoint profound debate of the
status quo and eclectic alternative pedagogies that complement and
integrate ethics and moral authority as important attributes of
business and leadership education. An important addition to all
leadership collections. Highly recommended.
*S. R. Kahn, University of Cincinnati*
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