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- Title
How to Develop Strategic Management Competency: Reconsidering the Learning Goals and Knowledge Requirements of the Core Strategy Course.
- Authors
Grant, Robert M.; Baden-Fuller, Charles
- Abstract
The dominance of theory-based approaches to teaching strategy has not displaced the need for core courses in strategic management to cultivate broader management skills. Yet, limited attention has been given to explicating, first, why we need to teach these skills; second, which skills we need to teach; and third, how they can to be developed in the classroom. To help answer these three questions we need to understand the linkages between theory-based and skills-based approaches to strategy teaching. We begin with the proposition that the purpose of the core strategic management is to develop the strategic management competency of our students. We then adopt a systematic approach to identifying the why, what, and how components of strategic management competency. We show why analytical tools need to be complemented by judgment, insight, intuition, creativity, and social and communicative skills. We outline what these skills are and where they come from. Finally, we derive implications for how we should design and deliver of the core strategic management course.
- Subjects
STRATEGIC planning; EFFECTIVE teaching; BUSINESS education; CURRICULUM planning; HIGHER education; DECISION making
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 3, p322
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amle.2017.0126