Abstract
Understanding and Advancing the Informal Management Curriculum
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2012(1), p.14353
07/2012
DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.14353symposium
Abstract
In the same way that we have a formal economy and an informal economy, there is also a formal management curriculum of knowledge and technical skills (e.g., Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship, etc.) and an informal curriculum where other, equally important, abilities are developed. The informal curriculum includes those elements and experiences provided to students in order to develop their tacit knowledge and experience in sense-making, leadership, teamwork, and other capacities that are important to their future success. Though most of us can agree on the elements of the formal curriculum—they look approximately the same at every business school—there is far less consistency among schools in the elements of the informal curriculum. We propose that many of the stinging critiques leveled against the relevance of management education share a concern with insufficient attention to the abilities that are currently a part of our informal curriculum. Likewise, in the same way that the formal and informal economies have an intertwined and symbiotic relationship, the informal and formal curricula are two parts of the whole of management education. The knowledge, skills, and experiences that constitute the informal curriculum would seem to be at least as important as those of the formal curriculum, but they are less well understood. We convene a panel of 4 respected scholars to engage the audience in dialogue about management education’s informal curriculum.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Understanding and Advancing the Informal Management Curriculum
- Creators
- Holly H Brower - Wake Forest UniversityArran Caza - Griffith UniversityDavid S. Bright - Wright State UniversityKenneth G. Brown - U. of IowaHenry Mintzberg - McGill University
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2012(1), p.14353
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.14353symposium
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2012
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984374353402771
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