Developing Leadership

Questions Business Schools Don′t Ask

Christopher Mabey, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Christopher Mabey, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781446296110, 9781446296103
• eBook ISBN: 9781473926929
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

What kind of a leader do you want to become? 

The role of business schools in developing future managers and leaders has long been scrutinised and critiqued. This has been exacerbated by the recent financial crisis and many books have been written that condemn business schools for producing leaders who graduate without the ability to respond to the changing world around them, innovate, or act in a responsible way.

By way of remedy this provocative book takes the critique and debate further, proposing a number of ethical and spiritual resources including Heiggarian philosophy, classical Greek philosophy, and the Maori notion of wairua.  It explores existing teaching practices and suggests ways that business schools can:

• Encourage a greater understanding of different world views
• Introduce different perspectives such as the arts, philosophy and spirituality
• Encourage the practice of responsible and ethical leadership
• Nurture innovation and creativity.

Developing Leadership is accompanied by filmed seminars exploring the central debates, and interviews with the expert team of contributors. 

?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?? - Professor Jonathan Gosling, Director, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, UK, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership Development, INSEAD, France

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration List
• Table List
• About the Contributors
• Praise for Developing Leadership
• The Parrot’s Training
• Foreword
• 1 What Kind of Leader Are You Becoming?
• Part I How Do Business Schools Prepare Students for Leadership?
• 2 Questioning Business Schools
• 3 Questions Business Schools Are Unable to Ask
• 4 Preparing Managers for ‘Exile’ at Work? The Hong Kong Experience
• 5 The Forgotten Humanness of Organizations
• Part I Rapporteur
• Part II How Robust are the Theoretical and Moral Assumptions of Business Schools?
• 6 Is Economic Growth a Force for Good?
• 7 Can Leadership Be Value-free?
• 8 Do Business Schools Create Conformists Rather Than Leaders?
• 9 Business Schools, Economic Virtues and Christian Theology
• 10 Can Our Bodies Guide the Teaching and Learning of Business Ethics?
• Part II Rapporteur
• Part III Ethical Leadership: Philosophical and Spiritual Approaches
• 11 Inspiring Responsible Leadership in Business Schools: Can a Spiritual Approach Help?
• 12 Is It Possible to Learn Ethical Leadership? MacIntyre, Žižek and the Recovery of Virtue
• 13 Classical Greek Philosophy and the Learning Journey
• 14 For Whose Purposes Do We Educate? Wairua in Business Schools
• Part III Rapporteur
• Part IV 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?
• 16 Why Is It Important for Leaders to Understand the Meaning of Respect?
• 17 The Contemporary Relevance of the Hebrew Wisdom Tradition
• 18 Do Business Schools Prepare Students for Cosmopolitan Careers? The Case of Greater China
• 19 Can an Ethic of Care Support the Management of Change?
• 20 Management Blockbusters: Is There Space for Open Dissent?
• Part IV Rapporteur1
• 21 Coda: Reflections on the Book, Its Genesis and Its Impact
• Index