The Plight to Choose: Cultivating Practical Deliberation in Management Learning and Education

Abstract

<jats:p> Departing from discussions at Research in Management Learning &amp; Education (RMLE) Unconferences, we identify the problem of practical deliberation: When faced with multiple, relevant theories that all demand to be given weight in a process of deliberation, how do management students, while drawing on these theories, justify their choice? Based on contemporary practical philosophy, we claim that students must aim for rational necessitation when practically deliberating about such decisions. Using the example of our teaching on a Master of Public Governance program at a major European business school, we delineate how we have employed a philosophical pedagogy to teach MBA students to practically deliberate in order to reach rational necessitation. With our theoretical and practical research, we aim to show how contemporary practical philosophy offers a distinct, original contribution to management learning and education in contrast with the traditional philosophies of education We end the article by suggesting and motivating five avenues of further research into the problem of practical deliberation in management learning and education. </jats:p>

Revisiting Marketing Management Teaching Pedagogy: A Study Based on the Voice of Indian Marketing Professionals

“…Marketing is one of the highly applied subjects in domain management where the main objective of the course is to develop the skill set of the future managers to address the challenges of today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business ecosystem (Horney et al, 2010; Popova et al, 2018; Sarkar, 2016; Schoemaker et al, 2018). That requires their decision-making ability, analytical skill, problem-solving and creativity (Gersel & Thaning, 2020; Ungaretti et al, 2015). Studies so far in the marketing education domain rightly explore these above-stated issues, but there is a lack of an integrated approach.…”