New management educational approaches
The world is changing, and our approaches to management education need to change with them. Over the last decade, global crises have changed the fabric of organisations and communities, such as global financial crises, ongoing wars, and global pandemics. Thus, the educational methods of the past may no longer be fit for purpose for the next generation of managers.
Managers are navigating opportunities to positively impact the environment, improve equity across the board, and implement sustainable business practices. As a research group, we explore how management education and learning can catalyse and empower these progressive managerial practices for a brighter future.
Our empirical and conceptual research examines diverse aspects of management education and learning, including the role of historical sensibility in overcoming dominant logic, decolonising management knowledge, and developing leaders. We also investigate the post-pandemic landscape, challenge managerialist control, and explore the transformation of business schools. Through our diverse approaches, we aim to reshape management education and learning to meet the evolving needs of individuals, organisations, and society.
Examples of our research
Five ways to reboot your organisation and develop diverse leaders
Following the disruption of COVID-19, organisations should resist returning to leadership as usual.
Inspiring sustainable careers: Bridging the gap between education and workplace practices
Bridging sustainability education and workplace action to empower students and benefit businesses through real-world experiences and industry engagement.
Managerialist control in post-pandemic business schools: The tragedy of the new normal and a new hope
Questioning why academic leaders reimposed controls post-COVID.
Developing and harnessing historical sensibility to overcome the influence of dominant logics: A pedagogical model
Breaking the cycle of mistakes by teaching how to evaluate, select, and analyse historical documents.
Translating servant leadership research into practice
Servant leadership research is vast, but practical guidance on applying it remains thin. We aimed to close that gap.
Place-based reflection deepens leader self-awareness
Leader self-awareness is central to leader development, but current approaches focus inward.
Mindfulness training as servant leadership development
Servant leadership research focuses on skill-building. Can mindfulness training also influence servant leadership development?
Reclaiming business schools beyond managerialist control
We examine how COVID-19 exposed managerialist control in Australian business schools and argue for sustainability-led change.
Historical sensibility for better management decisions
Investigating educators’ use of historical documents, narrative analysis, and collective memory-making to develop students’ reflexive understanding.
Transforming business schools through sustainability identity
We examine whether business school sustainability education changes students’ attitudes and identities, and whether those transformations endure.