Elmes, Michael

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Organization Management Journal Volume 3 Issue 1 Article 2 5-1-2006 Editor's Introduction Michael Elmes Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj  Part of the Organizational Behavior and Theory Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation Elmes, Michael (2006) "Editor's Introduction," Organization Management Journal: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj/vol3/iss1/2 Organization Management Journal First Person 2006 Vol. 3, No. 1, 3 © 2006 Eastern Academy of Management ISSN 1541-6518 www.omj-online.org                                                                                                                                                 Editor’s Introduction   In this issue, First Person moves from its place as a subsection of Teaching & Learning to an OMJ section in its own right.  We believe this shift serves to enhance the role of reflexivity among organizational scholars, and to highlight the importance of shared learning as a value in academic life.  In his article, “Taking the Charisma Out: Teaching as Facilitation,” Joe Raelin explores the para-doxes and dilemmas of shifting from a charisma-based to an inquiry-based approach to teaching and transmitting knowledge in the classroom.  The paper explores how and why he made this transition, how he tried to minimize his use of charisma in the classroom, and how his colleagues and peers reacted to the transition, many of them with skepticism and concern. He then looks to the theoretical literature to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of charisma and explains how he came to believe that an inquiry approach enabled students to take greater responsibility for their own learning. The article is noteworthy for the author’s willingness to examine his own feelings about and process surrounding charisma in the classroom and to purposefully try to move away from it. In discussing this transition, the reader gets the chance to see how he has de-veloped new teaching practices that are consistent with a shift in his teaching philosophy.  We also gain insight into some of the barriers and paradoxes he encountered in trying to make this transition.  Michael Elmes Editor, First Person 3 

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