The Management Exercises: A Way Forward with Purpose

This paper outlines the Management Exercises, a co-curricular program that reflects the more — the magis — to better prepare students as future leaders and citizens. The Management Exercises seek to further orient students toward a life of questioning and engagement as students learn to exercise discernment, to build character, and to enact citizenship. The four modules that comprise the Management Exercises are outlined in conjunction with the implementation of the Management Exercises into the school’s MBA program

Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching Through Collaborative Self-Study

Self-study research is a mode of scholarly inquiry in which teachers examine their beliefs and actions as educators and explore pedagogical questions. A three-phase model of collaborative self-study research is offered as a framework for university faculty to engage in self-study for the purpose of improving teaching and creating new knowledge

Dialogue as Renounced Aggression: JMI and the Case of AOM\u27s President\u27s Response to EO13769

Dialogue and debate are at the core of the social sciences. In this piece, the Journal of Management Inquiry(JMI) editors-in-chief discuss their position and decisions pertaining to the publication of Professor Anita McGahan’s response to Professor Hardimos Tsoukas. A key decision—given JMI’s commitment to dialogue and exchange in its scholarly form—included publishing three curated pieces where renowned scholars applied their scholarly voice and expertise to McGahan’s historical narrative. To conclude this piece and the entire Editors’ Choice collection, five scholars speak to needed qualitative research standards or address McGahan’s leadership directly. Specific corrections to Tsoukas are also provided

The similarities and differences of men’s and women’s personal work networks

Although network analysis has proven a useful approach to the study of organizations and organizational behavior, very little research has been done on the issue of gender differences in personal work networks. While there is considerable conventional wisdom about how men and women associate with their colleagues in the workplace, the matter still requires scientific scrutiny. The purpose of this thesis is to provide much needed descriptive evidence about the ways and extent to which the personal work networks of men and women managers or supervisors differ, and to illustrate how promotions impact such networks. Two separate studies comprise the thesis. The first study considered the personal work networks of men and women supervisors or managers who had not undergone formal career transitions in the previous 12 months. Network characteristic data were generated through a questionnaire returned by 242 individuals, representing three large Canadian companies in the banking, forestry, and insurance industries. Multiple regression was used to test for gender differences and company moderator effects. Contrary to the common assumption currently found in the literature that there are gender differences in personal work networks, this study found that differences in men’s and women’s association patterns at work were more likely in their expressive, rather than instrumental, networks. Though managers and supervisors were more likely to form homophilous ties, and men had networks of greater density, the results suggested that men and women had comparable instrumental work networks. The expressive networks, however, exhibited greater gender differences. Significant differences included the gender, location, the density, and the frequency of contact of these expressive ties. The second study considered the personal work networks of men and women supervisors or managers who had recently been promoted. Network characteristic data were generated through a questionnaire returned by 33 individuals working for a leading Canadian bank; however, possibly because of sampling deficiencies, no significant instrumental or expressive network differences were identified. Moreover, there were no differences in the turnover of individuals in men’s and women’s instrumental and expressive networks following promotions. A discussion regarding the status and future of personal work network research concludes the thesis.Business, Sauder School ofGraduat

Merging Reflective Inquiry and Self-Study as a Framework for Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching

A model for reflective self-study by nursing faculty includes three phases: assessment (being open to critique, finding collaborative partners, formulating research questions); implementation (understanding validation criteria, choosing data collection and analysis methods, maintaining data integrity); and dissemination (communicating findings, improving practice, developing new questions). (Contains 57 references.